From Thursday, extended rules on origin labelling will apply to meat in the refrigerated counters of German supermarkets and butchers' shops. The origin must now also be labelled for unpackaged meat from pigs, sheep, goats and poultry, as stipulated in a regulation by Germany's Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir. This already applied to packaged goods and unpackaged beef. The country where the animal was reared and the country of slaughter must be labelled, either with small signs or on screens at