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During the past days inspectors of the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority assessed already 662 manufacturing, warehousing and retail facilities handling with food. The highest numbers of premises were assessed in the regions of South Moravia, Hradec Kralove, Pardubice, Plzen and Karlovy Vary, where the water receded enough to let the inspectors carry out their work. Based on a preliminary estimate, about 90 % of all facilities potentially hit by the floods were inspected. Only about 60 % of points of sale, situated in the flooded areas, have so far been inspected and assessed in the territory of Prague.

In the other flooded areas the number of assessed facilities is lower, which depends on the extent of availability of the affected areas. The inspections are also complicated due to impassable roads in some areas. The inspectors will have to visit numerous places again, since there have not been removed yet the consequences of floods and the places are being cleaned up and repaired.

A lot of the facilities handling with food have not yet finished liquidation of foodstuffs that got in direct contact with floodwater, including those hermetically closed. The thing is that the inspectors found out, while working directly in the field, that the floodwater or mud might have seeped through inside the packing and contaminated the contents. For this reason, CAFIA advises the businessmen and consumers to liquidate uncompromisingly such foodstuffs.

The inspectors continue to work non-stop. Inspectors from the other regional inspectorates were called up to assist in the areas that were hit the most.

The entrepreneurs and owners of the food facilities can still contact the relevant CAFIA Inspectorates asking to assess fitness of their working facilities for the handling with food or to inspect the stored foodstuffs. The inspectors will issue the certificates of fitness as quickly as possible and free of charge. All the inspectorates closely cooperate with Regional Flood Crisis Managements that have at disposal all contact telephone numbers. These numbers are also published in the CAFIA web site www.czpi.cz 

During the assessments the CAFIA inspectors have so far identified one case of unsuccessful attempted misappropriation of the rejected foodstuffs that were disposed from a shop hit by the floods into a container that was to be taken to a dumpsite. CAFIA advises again all potential receivers of the physically depreciated foodstuffs against their attempted selling. If CAFIA identifies such a case, the penalty that is to be imposed will be very high.