cs Current information CAFIA dmx:GetUrlBase() traces2rss.xsl https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/further-heavy-metals-have-been-identified-in-food-supplements.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/further-heavy-metals-have-been-identified-in-food-supplements.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) has submitted to the court a notice of suspicion of criminal activities on the company Emil Havelka-Astrál. The laboratory analyses confirmed the occurrence of high quantities of further heavy metals in products imported and distributed by this company. 2001-10-12T10:01:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-warns-about-more-risky-products-containing-extremely-high-values-of-lead.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-warns-about-more-risky-products-containing-extremely-high-values-of-lead.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority identified more products that can represent a risk to human health and whose contents of lead were highly exceeding the MRL values. 2001-10-03T10:02:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-identified-a-very-risky-product-containing-extremely-high-values-of-lead.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-identified-a-very-risky-product-containing-extremely-high-values-of-lead.aspx Based on a incentive of a consumer the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority identified in the market a product that might represent a risk to human health and whose contents of lead detected were exceeding the hygienic limit. 2001-10-02T10:03:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-controlled-genuineness-of-the-consumer-potato-varieties.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-controlled-genuineness-of-the-consumer-potato-varieties.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority controlled if the declared varieties of autumn and early potatoes offered on the market are not replaced or mixed with other varieties of potatoes. 2001-09-04T10:03:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-perfomed-constrols-of-soya-sauce.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-perfomed-constrols-of-soya-sauce.aspx Last week the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority took samples of domestic and foreign Soya Sauces that are distributed on the Czech market. The samples have been handed over today to the University of Chemical Technology in Prague to carry out analyses of the contents of 3-MCPD (3-chlor-1,2-propandiol). 2001-08-13T10:04:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-performs-controls-of-novel-food.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-performs-controls-of-novel-food.aspx Since the beginning of this year the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority has been performing controls of genetically modified foods, basically such that might contain genetically modified DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and that are referred to as novel food. 2001-07-31T10:04:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/spain-imposed-a-ban-on-the-exports-of-poor-quality-olive-oils-based-on-the-results-of-analyses-performed-by-the-cafia.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/spain-imposed-a-ban-on-the-exports-of-poor-quality-olive-oils-based-on-the-results-of-analyses-performed-by-the-cafia.aspx CAFIA performed inspection of olive oils sold on the Czech market in March and April and detected limit exceeding values of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons. The Inspectorate immediately ordered to the Spanish companies that had brought the non-conforming oils to the Czech Republic to withdraw the products from the market. 2001-07-09T10:05:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/european-union-gives-priority-to-food-safety.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/european-union-gives-priority-to-food-safety.aspx For the first time representatives of the control bodies monitoring food safety both in the member and candidate countries of the European Union met at a conference held in Dublin, Ireland, last week. The main topic of the international conference was dedicated to the securing of food safety in the Single European Market. 2001-06-29T10:05:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-controlled-pepper-and-red-pepper.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/cafia-controlled-pepper-and-red-pepper.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority focused its inspections on the quality and safety of spices, namely black pepper, both whole and ground, and red pepper, both sweet and hot. 2001-06-26T10:06:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/dried-vegetables-on-the-czech-market-comply-with-requirements-for-health-safety.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/dried-vegetables-on-the-czech-market-comply-with-requirements-for-health-safety.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority carried out inspections of dried vegetables with focus on the contents of contaminants. The CAFIA inspectors took altogether 28 samples of dried vegetables mainly from domestic producers between March and May this year. The laboratory analyses confirmed that all samples taken - with one exception only - complied with the prescribed limits for the contents of nitrates, pesticide residues and preservatives, which was sulphur dioxide in these particular cases. 2001-06-20T10:06:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/phare-project-supporting-preparation-of-the-food-sector-for-joining-the-european-union-has-been-terminated.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/phare-project-supporting-preparation-of-the-food-sector-for-joining-the-european-union-has-been-terminated.aspx The Phare Project designated as "Support of the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority" has been terminated in Brno today. The Project, whose budget reached the total of 12 million Czech crowns (340 thousand Euro), was financed by the European Union. Its main scope was to increase professional qualification and knowledge of both the CAFIA inspectors and the interested out of a number of producers of food with respect to Food Law applied in the European Union. 2001-06-12T10:10:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/european-countries-harmonises-legislation-on-the-control-of-mycotoxins-in-food.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/european-countries-harmonises-legislation-on-the-control-of-mycotoxins-in-food.aspx A CAFIA representative, RNDr. Jindřich Smička, has come back from Vienna where he participated in a meeting of the FLEP Working Party (a non-governmental organisation associating representatives of the European inspection bodies that enforce the food legislation in practice). 2001-06-02T10:10:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-repeated-controls-of-the-presence-of-beef-in-the-imported-meat-products.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-repeated-controls-of-the-presence-of-beef-in-the-imported-meat-products.aspx In respect of BSE occurrence in some European countries, the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority continued in March and April to carry out inspections of the labelling of meat products with view of the identification of beef muscles present in particular products. This time the inspections focused on the imported food products sold on the Czech market. 2001-05-21T10:11:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-carried-out-controls-of-gluten-and-lactose.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-carried-out-controls-of-gluten-and-lactose.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority carried out controls with focus on the compliance with the prescribed contents of gluten and lactose in foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses in the period of March and April. In parallel, the inspectors also paid particular attention to proper labelling of these kinds of foodstuffs. 2001-05-17T10:11:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-performed-an-extraordinary-inspection-focused-on-potatoes.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-performed-an-extraordinary-inspection-focused-on-potatoes.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority identified very poor quality of potatoes sold at the market during inspections carried out in January and February this year. For this reason an extraordinary inspection was ordered to be performed in the entire retail market all over the territory of the Czech Republic in March. 2001-05-02T10:12:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-controlled-cigarette-and-pipe-tobaccos.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-controlled-cigarette-and-pipe-tobaccos.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority focused its inspections carried out in February and March on correct labelling of the pipe and cigarette tobaccos and on the declared weight of their consumer packaging. 2001-04-30T10:13:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/spices-containing-salmonella-have-been-withdrawn-from-circulation-in-the-market.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/spices-containing-salmonella-have-been-withdrawn-from-circulation-in-the-market.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority detected pathogenic bacteria of the genus Salmonella in two types of spices imported to the Czech Republic from Austria by a company Johann Kotányi, spol. s r.o. Praha. 2001-04-26T10:13:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-brought-up-results-of-evaluation-of-an-annual-microbial-surveillance-of-food.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-brought-up-results-of-evaluation-of-an-annual-microbial-surveillance-of-food.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority carried out an annual monitoring of the occurrence of pathogenic microorganisms in foodstuffs. In addition to ordinary foodstuffs, CAFIA focused especially on meat products that were not heat processed and were used to direct consumption (e.g. teewurst), and also on all kinds of cheeses (with the exception of processed cheeses), since the occurrence of bacteria of the genus Salmonella and Listeria 2001-04-05T10:14:00+02:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-detected-the-limit-exceeding-values-of-aflatoxin-in-fried-peanuts.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-detected-the-limit-exceeding-values-of-aflatoxin-in-fried-peanuts.aspx The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority detected aflatoxin B1 in values exceeding the hygienic limit in a product with trade name Peanuts, fried, salty. The producer, Vitana a.s., Byšice, supplies with the peanuts COOP CENTRUM, a wholesale cooperative. 2001-03-20T10:14:00+01:00 https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-discovered-false-labelling-of-some-meat-products.aspx https://www.szpi.gov.cz/en/article/the-czech-agriculture-and-food-inspection-authority-discovered-false-labelling-of-some-meat-products.aspx From the beginning of this year the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority has tightened the control activities focusing on true labelling of meat products in the market. At the turn of January and February the CAFIA inspectors took 65 samples of different products containing meat in shops at the entire territory of the Czech Republic. The results of analytical laboratory tests showed that 9 of the products contained beef muscle, which was not declared on the product labelling. Six of those samples came from domestic producers; the remaining three were of foreign origin. 2001-03-13T10:15:00+01:00