Healthcare
Bakeries, not government inspectors, are doing most of the quality control to insure that bread and flour is hygienic and uncontaminated.
Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)
11.12.2006
Bakeries, not government inspectors, are doing most of the quality control to insure that bread and flour is hygienic and uncontaminated.
Cramped quarters, inadequent equipment, lack of oversight and standards means lab testing of food in BiH could be unreliable.
CIN tested some of the labs that test food and found variations.
Financial police complain that when they find abuse of office and illegal expenditures by officials, their reports gather dust in prosecutors’ offices.
Political party leaders don’t see any problem with running candidates under suspicion of public corruption. The voters can decide if they don’t like a candidate and courts will eventually rule on the validity of charges.
Years after financial police issue a report about widespread corruption by 21 officials of Srednjobosanski Canton, nothing much has been done and nine of the suspects are running for public office again.
A Federal Financial Police report shows the chain of events that led to the construction of what should have been a jail that sits empty near a school full of children.
Nearly all the suspects named in a 2003 FBiH Financial Police report on corruption that CIN contacted had trouble remembering any criminal complaint.
Busy prosecutor’s office says it has only 10 prosecutors to handle 6,000 live cases, and so a 2003 report by Federation Financial Police long goes unacted upon.
Insuring hygienic, contaminant-free food in Bosnia and Herzegovina will require the following steps.
Moving responsibility for veterinary border inspections from entities to state has not made for smooth inspections, and state auditors find faults with the State Veterinary Office as well.
Zoran Đerić, the new deputy director of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Food Safety Agency, is no vegetarian, but because he knows that big meat processing companies use
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