The Danish poultry farmers have been working extremely hard to eradicate salmonella. They do have some small insentive though. If you can prove that your countries chicks do not have salmonella, then the EU allows you to ban import chicks from countries that cannot make the same guarantees. This frees Danish poultry farmers from competing with German or eastern European farmers. The same laws applies to eggs, so throwing huge investments into figthing salmonella pays of in the long run.
Food safety in Denmark, and the rest of Scandinavia is a huge deal, but it's expensive.
> If you can prove that your countries chicks do not have salmonella, then the EU allows you to ban import chicks from countries that cannot make the same guarantees. This frees Danish poultry farmers from competing with German or eastern European farmers. The same laws applies to eggs, so throwing huge investments into figthing salmonella pays of in the long run.
That is a very clever, possibly even devious, way of fighting salmonella. Shield the ones who do it right from competitions by the ones who do it wrong. Maybe we should do that in more industries to get everybody to step up their game.
Food safety in Denmark, and the rest of Scandinavia is a huge deal, but it's expensive.
http://sciencenordic.com/no-more-salmonella-danish-poultry
How it's actually ensured: http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/03/contamina...