The World Health Organization (WHO) has formally recognised that Lithuania has effective legislative and control measures in place to ensure that trans fats harmful to health are removed from food.
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Lithuania can now export egg products to the United States. The country’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the news on 15 September. Lithuania became the second EU country after the Netherlands to obtain such a permit, said the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT).
A state of emergency has been declared in the municipality of Jonava due to a coronavirus outbreak at a mink farm in the central Lithuanian district.
There's no basis yet to fear that people might get infected by the coronavirus from minks at animal farms, acting Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga says.
The coronavirus has been found at a mink farm in Lithuania's central district of Jonava, the country's State Food and Veterinary Service told BNS on Thursday.
Lithuanian retail chain Maxima and meat processing group Biovela Group are facing thousand-euro-worth fines for the supply of salmonella-contaminated meat to the market.
Salmonella-contaminated meat could have been sold at Maxima stores in Lithuania for several days, a representative of the country's State Food and veterinary Service, says.
The European Commission's ban on imports of Ukrainian poultry meat and poultry products will have no major effect on Lithuania, a food control official said.
Amid reports of bird flu outbreaks in Poland, Lithuania's veterinary authority assured consumers on Tuesday that no infected meat has reached the Lithuanian market, but urged poultry farms in the country to take additional preventive measures.
In past months some global media shocked their readers by claiming that grounded coffee might contain cockroaches and their facets. Can it be true or it is just another fake news that spread quickly mouth to mouth around the world?
Lithuania's meat and poultry processor Nematekas has received the green light to export its products to Vietnam.
Lithuanian companies have been allowed to export egg products to New Zealand, the State Food and Veterinary Service announced on Wednesday.
The State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) said on Wednesday it will suspend the Polish carrier Konrad's license for transporting animals to or from Lithuania after it failed to meet the animal welfare requirements while carrying a consignment of calves to Israel.
A team of Chinese experts are coming to Lithuania on Monday to carry out the last checks before allowing Lithuania to export frozen beef and beef offal.
Lithuanian prosecutors suspect that MP Petras Grazulis, a member of the non-attached political group in the Lithuanian Seimas, abused his official position for a long time, acting in the interest of Judex, a Kaunas-based producer of frozen products, interfering with activity of state officials, enco...
Lithuanian producers have been allowed to export frozen food products, including picas, dumplings etc, to Ukraine after Ukrainian and Lithuanian representatives agreed on that last year, Lithuania's State Food and Veterinary Service said.
Lithuania considers tightening Polish pork imports in response to the neighboring country's recent ban on pork and pig imports from Lithuania, the country's Agriculture Minister Giedrius Surplys said on Friday.
The government has taken aim at the informal economy, just as many prior to it has. This time, the construction sector, meat produce trade, healthcare institutions and minor traders are in its sights, lrt.lt writes.
Agriculture Minister Giedrius Surplys is visiting China to promote Lithuanian exports to the huge Asian market.
Lithuania's State Food and Veterinary Service has received four complaints over this week on needles found in foodstuffs.
