2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The Christmas and New Year table are a severe test not only for the family budget, but also for people's health. Let's put aside the severe cases of overeating that traditionally fill the emergency departments of hospitals. This year, a new threat is about to "poison" the table for Christmas and New Year in a figurative and literal sense.
Experts from the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) warn that around the holidays, many shops, restaurants and hotels that offer their guests cheap "all-inclusive" packages tend to buy cheap products that are not safe for consumption.
The shocking thing in this case is that the spoiled food in question comes directly from the producers. The reason for this is the existing, despite the explicit prohibition, vicious practice for manufacturers to buy back expired goods.
Discarded products are returned to the production bases, where they are repackaged and given a "new" shelf life or processed and used in the production of fresh and dried sausages.
Old meat or minced meat is used for the production of semi-finished products - meatballs, kebabs, decently flavored spicy steaks or skewers. The leader in this respect is the sazdarma, in which almost any unsuitable meat product can be used.
At the beginning of 2013, amendments to the Law on Veterinary Activities were adopted, which strictly prohibits the return of food of animal origin from wholesale and retail outlets back to production facilities. But the Food Act has not yet been changed in this regard. The draft amendment, which also imposes heavier fines on violators, has not yet reached plenary.
Experts believe that neither bans nor severe fines will be able to put an end to the vicious practice. The truth is that it is cheaper for traders to pay their fines if they are caught in violation, which is becoming increasingly difficult than to incur losses from expired goods.
Retail outlets do not comply with the requirements for keeping strict logs for traceability of goods, which makes it almost impossible to prove such violations.
The dangerous practice of selling unfit goods to human health is usually booming around the holidays. There are two reasons for this. On the one hand, people untie their wallets and buy many more products. On the other hand, the experts of the BFSA and RIPCHP are civil servants who, like other civil servants, enjoy long Christmas and New Year holidays, ie. there is simply no one to control the sites on official non-working days.
Be especially careful what you put on the festive tables for Christmas and New Year. Experts advise to bet on basic products - fresh meat, cheese, milk, pastrami, turkeys.
As appetizing as sausages and sausages may seem to you, be especially careful before putting them in your shopping cart. Sausages and semi-finished products, in which discarded products are used, can make you feel unwell at best. More severe cases such as salmonellosis and food poisoning will send you directly to the hospital.
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