Healthcare
Insuring hygienic, contaminant-free food in Bosnia and Herzegovina will require the following steps.
Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo (CIN)
25.8.2006
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
Delay in implementing big structural changes needed to ensure a safe food supply has put BiH behind other European countries, and consumers suffer as a result.
If you have a complaint about the quality of the food you eat, you can tell the person who served it that you are not happy, but that’s about it. Consumer protection is mostly an illusion because NGOs are broke and disorganized, inspectors are too busy and courts are overburdened.
There’s no clear-cut, easy and safe way to dispose of food products that inspectors find to be contaminated or spoiled.
Police and Inspectors each say it’s not their job to stop the illegal sale of food outside markets.
Poor equipment and disorganized data lets unsafe food into BiH.
Low-grade cuts that many countries won’t import cross borders into BiH and end up on the dinner table.
Nearly half the food tested in a summer-time analysis by laboratory experts was found to be loaded with bacteria, including varieties that cause cramps, vomiting and diarrhea of food poisoning.
Trade in cattle across the borders of BiH is profitable enough to keep smugglers busy despite fears of disease and a contaminated food supply.
Unwashed hands, dirty counter tops and summer heat can turn food you eat every day into poison and a fractured, under-funded inspection system is not protecting you.
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