Inventory of the raw milk butter production in Wallonia (Belgium)

Since the fourteenth century, the marketing of butter, which is considered one of the first dairy products, is done on an international scale. In Belgium, butter production in 2016 increased by 7.7% in comparison with 2015 to reach 87,506 tons. According to the scientific opinion 09/2016 of the Scientific Committee of the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain, there is a wide variation in the production processes and types of farm butter made from raw milk.