The main goal of the EU food safety policy is to ensure human life protection on the highest possible level. In the present stage of Polish economy development, the major problem is an improvement of competitiveness. After Poland’s accession to the European Union, entrepreneurs had to decide...

Use of land, as a limited resource is gaining importance due to the rapid growth of Earth’s population, the subsequently increasing demand for energy and the presumed impact of climate changes. Despite of the land being a specific resource, as lots of experiences confirm, in most of the...

As a part of the strategies identified during the Estates General of livestock farming, the Region of Piedmont has financed a project in order to verify the level of appreciation of medium heavy swine in the swine sector. The Region has involved the Department of Commodity Science of Turin...

After the Polish accession to the EU, the Polish poultry market was incorporated into the common organization of poultry market in the Community and became a part of it. This integration has contributed to higher prices of poultry meat, but it also contributed to an increase in its consumption....

An analysis, based on empirical data for the period of 1990-2011, presents changes in production, consumption and foreign trade in pig meat and its products. Since 2008 Poland has been a net importer of pig meat and its products. / Synopsis. W artykule przedstawiono zmiany w produkcji,...

The analysis, based on empirical data from the period of 1990-2009, presents the production, consumption and foreign trade in poultry meat and its products. Since 1998, Poland is a net exporter of poultry meat and its products. The balance of Polish trade in these products is improving. /...

Growing consumer requirements for fresh meat compel producers to use various packaging systems. The use of individual packages of meat is necessary because of the need to reduce the work in the back of the retail store, related to the cutting and meat repackaging. Because of that, the market of...

This paper presents the possibility of changes in the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. Attention was drawn to the European Commission's proposals which result from discussions with representatives of various disciplines and backgrounds as well as the results of studies of other...

The EU accession caused an increase of requirements regarding placing plant protection products in the market. In the long run it will probably influence positively the state of natural environment in Poland. At present however the most visible effect is a decline in number of registered plant...

The aim of this paper is to present the abuses and irregularities which were identified in agriculture, processing industry and trade of ecological products in the Czech Republic. The analysis shows that the most common are the irregularities in labelling the products. Other often occurring...