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Although inspectors of the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority are very busy with the food controls carried out in the areas hit by the floods, they also deal with the ordinary inspections planned for the summer months.

Ice cream becomes a seasonal hit every year. Since it is sold in summer when the conditions are most favourable for the growth of undesirable microorganisms, and, moreover, the unpacked ice cream is often sold right in the streets, it is taken as a microbiologically risky foodstuff.

The results of this year’s inspections show that there is no reason for worries, as all 87 samples of ice cream that the CAFIA inspectors took in 42 producers and dealers complied with the relevant regulations and the laboratory analyses did not prove any undesirable microorganisms. Most of the ice cream dealers also observe the sanitary regulations on the ice cream selling: the ice cream cornets must be kept in storage cassette and the service is obliged to use serving tongs to handle with them and these need to be washed in drinking water. In about a quarter of the dealers the inspectors discovered that the serving tongs were missing. According to the owners the reason was the temporary workers, on the other hand, they should have been duly instructed about the observance of sanitary regulations.

CAFIA also completed and evaluated the controls of grain products of the milling industry, i.e. various kinds of flour, semolina, peeled barleys, oat flakes, rice and müesli, for specific mycotoxins – sterigmatocystine and deoxinivalenol.

In general, mycotoxins are products of some moulds that can be dangerous both to humans and livestock. This is also one of the reasons why any food attacked by moulds should be discarded without mercy and consumers should avoid cutting off the mouldy parts, as mycotoxins can contaminate the whole foodstuff. Mycotoxins in cereals occur mostly due to harvesting wet and green crops, or due to mechanical damage caused to the grain surface or when the crop is stored in unventilated and wet places.

The CAFIA laboratories analysed 40 samples of wheat and corn flour, rice, semolina and gluten-free flour for the contents of mycotoxin deoxinivalenol and 44 samples of various kinds of flour, rice, peeled barleys, müesli, wheat, oat and rye flakes and spelt (a type of wheat) for the presence of mycotoxin sterigmatocystine. Neither of the two cases proved the MRL exceeding contents of those substances and all the samples taken and analysed complied with the requirements for food safety.