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In connection to information of the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority regarding the occurring groups of resellers of food from the flooded areas, CAFIA decided to extend the assessment and controls of manufacturing premises, warehouses, as well as shops offering food.

According to signals that CAFIA received, the groups of unscrupulous businessmen seek to repurchase for very low prices from the affected producers and shopkeepers the expired, damaged or otherwise physically depreciated foodstuffs and to use them for their own enrichment.

For this reason, the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority tightens the regime of the ongoing assessments of fitness of the manufacturing premises, warehouses and shops offering food. The food assessment will proceed non-stop, including Saturdays and Sundays, so that all these places in flooded areas might be inspected. If the inspectors identify a provable contact of food with floodwater or harm caused to food safety, they will impose a ban on the release into circulation of the particular foodstuff. The inspectors will then control how the food was actually treated. By applying such procedure, CAFIA would like to register all damaged or physically depreciated goods in order to gather as much information as possible about their actual fate.

The CAFIA, by no means, wants to complicate the tough situation of businessmen in the areas that were flooded. On the contrary, the CAFIA’s priority is to protect consumer’s health from the potentially risky goods that might be distributed in the market and – after all – to protect also the affected businessmen from unfair competition.

If CAFIA discovers any case of repurchasing and reselling of food rejected from the flooded areas anywhere in the country, it is going to impose very high sanctions on such unscrupulous businessmen, knowing no mercy.

The inspectors will apply a sensitive approach in the course of the assessment, as they take into account the difficult situation of people affected by floods.