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Not everything for free is good
05/25/2010Foodstuffs may reach consumers in different ways: These days foodstuffs are commonly sold in tobacco shops, drugstores, clothes shops, by means of the Internet or at various sales presentations. Foodstuffs are often offered for free, for example within sales promotion or as a present to the purchased goods. However, these foodstuffs also have to comply with the requirements of the legislation, namely as far as hygiene and food safety are concerned.
Inspectors of Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority have for example recently carried out a control at an organized trip in Český Šternberk which was connected with a presentation of household appliances. Leaflets inviting to this presentation promised to participants not only a trip but also lunch and one kilo of smoked goods for free. Inspectors found out on the spot that participants, mostly seniors, should have really been given packages of salami chips Vysočina. Packages of smoked goods were stored on rusty and dirty floors of luggage compartments of two buses which transported the participants to the presentation. Although the producer of smoked goods stated on the packaging that salamis had to be refrigerated up to five degrees Celsius, the inspectors measured as much as nineteen degrees in the luggage compartment.
Due to unsatisfactory storage conditions the inspectors banned all smoked goods on the spot. More than two hundred and twenty kilograms of foodstuffs were concerned. The inspectors also learned from delivery notes and from drivers themselves, that at the former presentation nearly 250 kilograms of smoked products had been given away in a similar way. According to the presentation organiser’s representative, hereafter buses will be equipped with a mobile refrigeration plant.
The storage conditions declared on foodstuff packaging are obligatory for all sellers. Consumers themselves should be interested in the way in which the foodstuffs are stored, at what temperatures and under what hygiene conditions. All the more so if quickly deteriorating foodstuffs are concerned, as for example milk and meat products.
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