manufacturers can replace duck with chicken in dishes

With oil and egg supply tensions as well as avian flu, the state authorizes the agri-food industry to change its recipes, Monday, August 29, without this necessarily being written on product labels. “There is deception on the product anyway”, observes a man. The authorization applies to eggs and poultry. Thus, a pot of duck rillettes may contain chicken.

For inhabitants of the Gers, this is inconceivable. “We are a duck producer, we are not a chicken producer, we don’t put anything else in duck rillettes”, says Joël Valentin, producer. In the event of a recipe change, manufacturers must stick a label on the product specifying the exemption. Large retailers must also display it. “For once, it’s a problem since we have recipe changes that relate to the basic ingredient”explains Olivier Andrault of the UFC-Que Choisir association.