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The Bulgarian division of the German company Lidl introduces new higher standards for the quality of the sausage from their own brand that they offer. All sausages from the Pikok, Baroni and Dulano brands, as well as from the "Rodna Stryha" product line, are now produced without the use of mechanically separated meat, which reduces the use of improvers and thickeners, the company said.

In the western province of Muğla's Bodrum's district, a stray cat, which was claimed to have stolen sausage from a grocery store chain, was put in a cage by the store's officials. 

A well-known Croatian producer of salami and other meat products, Georg ‘Djuro’ Gavrilovic, will go on trial at a Zagreb court in May for alleged war profiteering.

To help promote National Butchers’ Week, Meat Trades Journal launched a competition to find the sexiest butcher in UK. Its aim was to provide a platform for butchery businesses to promote the trade and help to endorse the industry as a sexy and relevant career path to take.

When at the start of a recent weekly briefing, the Romanian government spokesman offered journalists some slices of dry sausage, it was not only a surprising move but a sound PR stunt.

"We want to share the joy of this moment with you, as Sibiu Salami has just become a protected product in the European Union," spokeperson Dan Suciu told his audience.

Germany might be renowned the world over for its sausages, but it seems this about to change. The large influx of refugees and illegal immigrants into the country has led to the decision by many vendors to withdraw all pork related food from canteens, schools and childcare centers in order to avoid offending the newly arrived Muslims.

World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes a report on the dangers of eating processed meats and ranked processed meat as ‘carcinogenic to humans’, the highest of five possible rankings, shared with alcohol, asbestos, arsenic and cigarettes.

A fat cat in western Turkey has shed more than five kilograms in four months after its owner hospitalized the pet.

Named "Ta? Kafa" (Stone Head), referring to a Turkish expression for a dumb person, the five-year-old cat was recently taken to the animal treatment center of Nilüfer district in the Bursa province by its owner.

The ?ghiudem', a dry raw sausage prepared by Tatars of the southeastern Romanian province of Dobrogea, is about to be officially recognized as a traditional product, using a very old recipe.

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