2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Carrots with lead, oatmeal with poisonous fungi and lasagna with hormone-treated meat were detected by the inspectors of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, but they did not inform the Bulgarians about the dangerous foods.
The head of the National Audit Office, Tsvetan Tsvetkov, told btv that striking gaps were found in the activities of the BFSA after the last audit of the institution.
The main thing that the Court of Audit's inspection has established is that the Agency makes serious efforts to detect risky products in our country, but for one reason or another hides this information from the public.
The BFSA inspectors have established that in fact food dangerous to health is sold in our country as a result of signals submitted by the unified system of the European Commission for food and feed safety.
The problem is that the Food Agency does not inform Bulgarian consumers in a timely manner about harmful goods that are sold freely so that they do not buy them or, if they have already bought them, do not consume them.
After the violation was established, the BFSA seized the food products from the retail outlets, and not from the warehouses of the trader who placed them on the Bulgarian markets.
The audit also found that 1/3 of Bulgarians are unaware of the existence of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, which must inspect potentially dangerous foods based on consumer signals.
Two million were dangerous foods destroyed by the BFSA without announcing their brand or the outlets where they were found.
It turns out that the big food chains in our country are not worried about the fines imposed, but about a serious outflow of customers, which would occur if the stores selling dangerous foods were made public.
The Court of Auditors has recommended that the Food Agency improve its controls. Now an inspector can carry out an inspection, which increases the risk of corruption. It is recommended that inspections be performed by at least two people.
In addition, there should be a rotation of inspectors, not the same BFSA representatives to regularly inspect the same sites.
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