14 December, the Institute of Consumer Expertise completed two months national expertise of meat products producers and published the results.

Two meat processing enterprises of MHP - "Lehko" and "Druzhba Narodiv" entered the top 5 producers.

The Director of the Institute Yuri Chornobryvets noted: "Five producers, which passed the expertise are market leaders. There are more other producers on the market and we can only guess what they deliver to supermarkets’ shelves. But now each customer, buying sausages and convenience food, knows five producers who can be trusted."

Experts of the independent audit concluded that producers, which were voluntarily examined on quality and safety, have shown the highest standards of compliance. Among those who voluntarily agreed to go through the expertise are the following Ukrainian producers: “Lehko”, "Druzhba Narodiv", Kremenchukm’yaso”, “Yuvileinyi" and " Yatran".

This project was realized exclusively on voluntary basis. Enterprises were inspected for presence of pathogenic bacteria at control points from raw materials to packaging. Separately, experts analyzed water used at enterprises, as well as hygiene of production and workers.