CAFIA perceives the signals from the public and other sources as well. On their basis, the Authority pays higher attention to the quality of the foodstuffs on sale. The Inspection Authority was therefore in the previous year focused on this area more intensively not only within common inspections but also within thematically focused extraordinary inspection activities as well.

The important inspection detections involved for example significantly lower proportion of fruit in jams than declared on the labelling, the proportion of meat in fish products as well as addition of water to wine amounting to dozens of percent or adulteration of honey by adding unauthorized components.

Measures and also fines within administrative procedures are imposed in cases when violation of quality requirements was detected. Based on these findings and also suggestions from consumers and media, CAFIA will also this year pay attention to the matter of food quality with a high focus and will provide information on the results regularly.

Requirements on food quality are laid down by Czech national legislation, exceptionally by European regulations. The requirements are not laid down for certain foodstuffs, however, the Inspection Authority compares the information on the product indicated on the labelling with its factual content. The Inspection Authority can thus check the quality at those products for which the quality criteria are not explicitly required by legislation.

Documents summing up the most significant inspection detections regarding food quality in the previous period are attached (available only in czech version):