During the official control in the market chain inspectors of the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) found a non-compliant sample of a product with the commercial name “AQUILA AQUALINEA non-carbonated, spring water”, best before date 20.5.12

Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority has ordered to withdraw from circulation some batches of products that contained pine nuts. According to the inspectors´ findings, their consumption caused so-called "pine mouth syndrome",i.e. taste disturbance that can last for several days or weeks after consumption.

The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) does not recommend that consumers use foodstuff with trade name “BSN Thermonex foundation 120 cps” produced by company Bio-Engineered Supplements & Nutrition. The preparation originating from the USA is intended for specific nutrition for sportspeople. The risk consists in excessive amount of octopamine in the recommended daily dosage.

The German side announced that analyses of bio-cucumbers that had been delivered also to Czech company Country Life revealed two cases of bacteria Escherichia Coli producing shiga-toxin (STEC), however, not type O 104 : H4, which is the originator of the outbreak spreading from the territory of the Northern Germany.

CAFIA Director General has decided today to extend special area inspections of fresh vegetables throughout the entire territory of the Czech Republic. In the next two weeks, 260 samples of fresh vegetables will be taken. Samples are taken from all kinds of vegetables, not only from bio-cucumbers.

Cucumbers from Spain suspected of being contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria enterohemorrhagic have been delivered also to the Czech Republic in recent days. It is a salad bio-cucumber from a German supplier. The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority received that message a few minutes ago from the German side through the Rapid Alert System RASFF. The Czech Republic has not reported any case of infection yet.

In these days, the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) keeps watch on the situation on the market, namely in connection with diseases caused by toxin produced by bacteria Escherichia coli in Germany. Salad cucumbers from Spain are probably the originators of this toxin.

The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) detected sulphur dioxide in product sold under trade name “Candied Pears”, lot L: O 056, best before: 1. 10. 2011, packaging à 150 g; the amount of sulphur dioxide exceeded the admissible maximum limit almost four times.