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3. Inspection

3.8 Inspections in the Trade Network

The surveillance over the trade network includes inspections carried out both in retail establishments and in wholesale warehouses. The inspections in the retail trade network were pursued on the basis of a plan prepared by the individual CAFIA regional inspectorates, and also within a range of inspections under the command of the headquarters, and a relatively high number of inspections were carried out on the basis of complaints and suggestions received from consumers.

In terms with requirements stipulated in legal regulations, the main concern of inspections was paid to the equipment of the shops according to the assortment of goods sold, to the compliance with sanitary and hygienic requirements in the process of selling, to documents accompanying the goods, correct labelling of food, compliance with the use-by-dates and dates of minimum durability, and last but not least, to the compliance with the temperature regimes designed for the storage of cooled and frozen foodstuffs.

The inspections performed in wholesale warehouses, as in the previous years, focused especially on the imported foods and on the accomplishment of examinations of the nonconforming food samples detected initially during inspections performed in retail establishments.

Graph 3.8. The share of inspections performed in the production premises in the total number of inspections performed between 1999 and 2002