It may not be just the EU laws, but are you sure that just any sausage
skin can be used for gut?
Why is it that Dan has to source beef gut from the EU, when there must
be US Beef-gut, more or less on his doorstep?
No, I think it is necessary to treat the gut in some way at the source,
before it is sent to the string maker.
Perhaps, this treatment on the spot is legally problematic, but I
admit, I don't know the exact reasons.
Regards
Anthony
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Envoye le : Jeudi 17 Novembre 2011 15h00
Objet : [LUTE] Re: Gut strings
>Does anyone know if Kuerchner in Germany is still making gut
strings?
Or Kathedrale (?).
It is quite funny - and also a little bit alarming- to see, how the
EU
bureaucracy becames the projection area for the strangest ideas and
fears. A reputation well earned, some may say, but a little bit more
of
horse sense is recommended when one reads announcements like the one
about gut strings - (or, before, the one about the alleged
prohibition
of natural medicine).
In fact many people here in Brussels are quite normal. I as a German
was at once sure that it must be a hoax, because we eat every day
12.689.344 sausages, many of them with a delicious skin of sheep gut.
I
called a big producer of those so called "saitling" sausage skins:
they
are producing happily and will go on forever. The same with
Kuerschner
strings.
I asked people form the health department of the EU commission: guts
no
topic at all.
If you want to read really strange laws, read your national
legislation
:))
So: No idea, where the gut story comes from.
Perhaps we should still start in the good tradition one of those
internet petitions ;)
best wishes (while wishing is still allowed)
Bernd
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