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Out of 29 food produce, there were nine identified with double standards in Romania and the EU

The Romanian authorities discovered nine out of the 29 food produce which had double standards from the  point of view of quality in Romania and some countries in the  EU following the  comparative analyses, stated on Wednesday the manager of the Institute for Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health (IISPV) Rodica Tanasuica, in a press conference where the minister of agriculture Petre Daea was also present.

These actions were attended by the representatives of the ministry of agriculture, of the National Authority for Veterinary Health and Food Safety (ANSVSA) and the National Authority for the protection of the consumers (ANPC). IIPSV is an institution under the aegis  of ANSVSA.

As a total, there were taken 29 samples from European countries and other 29 similar samples from Romanian shops for meat, milk produce, fish tins and chocolate.

The categories of produce which were received at the Institute for Hygiene in Bucharest were: nine cheese produce, two butter produce, one sour cream produce, seven ham produce, three sausages produce, three fish produce, two liver produce and one chocolate produce.

There were found differences in: pork rosy sausages, grill sausages, tinned fish, pate, bacon, ham, tinned mackerel, tinned hering.

‘We are sending the results to the European Commission and we will request to accelerate the regulations processes, so that we have  the instruments to analyse anytime and in any country the products which have double standards’ the minister of agriculture Petre Daea said in the press conference.

‘The  products do not present any danger to the population health, we have legal reason to eliminate them from the market. We will not give the names of the products or of the producers’ the minister of agriculture said.

Several employees of the Romanian state took samples from products from Maastricht(the Netherlands), Aachen (Germany) Brussels (Belgium) between 19-26 June to make a comparative study as regards the food products with possible double standard, announced on 10 July the minister of agriculture and rural development (MADR).

The employees took samples from food produce from the shops which were selected depending on their presence in the three countries and in Romania as well as identical produce which could be found in the shops in the respective countries: Lidl –Germany and the Netherlands, Kaufland – Germany, Belgium – Delhaize (Mega Image –Romania).

Several leaders in the states of the Central and Eastern Europe consider that there is a double standard of the produce, produce of inferior quality being sold to the consumers in poorer countries in the community block.

On Thursday, the Slovak premier Robert Fico will discuss the problem of double standard for food with the leader of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. The topic has often been on the agenda of the group in Visegrad, made up of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.


EU to give research tips on dual food quality

The European Commission is preparing a common method to see if food quality is lower in some member states, as alleged.

We are working on a sound methodology to improve food product tests so that member states can discuss this issue on a sound and shared scientific basis that is the same for all,” commission spokesman Christian Wigand told EUobserver.

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