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The Czech National Contact Point for RASSF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed), which is managed by the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority, strongly rejects false and misleading information about the alleged importation of contaminated feeding fat for poultry and pigs from Germany to the Czech Republic.

This is complete misinformation which evokes unsubstantiated panic not only among farmers and food producers but especially among consumers. Director General of CAFIA, Jakub Šebesta, considers releasing this misinformation without any consultation with responsible staff of the National Contact Point (NCP) as unprecedented recklessness and irresponsibility.

“I consider this false information, which was published yesterday by the Literární noviny and then without further verification at National Contact Point by other media, as irresponsible and utterly unprofessional attempt to sponge on the recent events at the expense of the real situation and at any price. I also regard some “informed” comments of some representatives of institutions representing farmers as incredibly populist. The Czech National Contact Point works perfectly 24 hours a day and it is no problem to ask about the real situation of the affair at any time. Dioxins case is apparently too tempting media bite”, Jakub Šebesta said today in this context.

Information published in the Literární noviny and then in other media says that feeding fat contaminated with dioxins occurred at the Czech market and that Czech authorities reportedly do not know about it. Director General Jakub Šebesta had examined the whole situation during yesterday. The result is that such information has never been sent to the Czech Republic through the RASFF. NCP has also asked the European Commission for its opinion. From its opinion results that “the editor of the Czech press probably misunderstood the content of the source information published on the official website of the EC and there was a confusion with terms, potentially contaminated pork´ with, feed´. In fact no contaminated feed (feeding fat) was delivered to the Czech Republic”.  The author of the original text in the  Literární noviny has not anyhow verified this information.