2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A BBC study shows that there is a huge difference between the content of goods in Western and Eastern Europe. The packaging looks the same, but the taste is radically different.
Such a difference has long been suspected in the Czech Republic and Hungary, where consumers say food in neighboring Germany and Austria is of much higher quality than in their home markets.
This is shared by the Czech Petar Zedinek, who travels three times a month to the neighboring German city of Altenburg to shop. The journey is only 20 minutes, but the food is worth it and it is also cheaper, he told the BBC.
A canned tuna, for example, in Germany costs 1 euro, and when you open it, large pieces of nice fish appear inside. In the Czech Republic, the price of the same brand is 1.50 euros, and the fish is pureed.
Peter also shows a sausage bought in Altenburg, the label of which says 87% meat content.
Show me a brand of sausages in the Czech Republic that contains 87% meat. There are none, he added.
Under European law, manufacturers have the right to use this unfair practice. They are only obliged to describe the ingredients used and to keep the same packaging.
The Zedinek family, on the other hand, along with thousands of other Eastern European consumers, believe it is a conspiracy by large producers who use the Slavic countries as a wastebasket.
Last year, the Minister of Agriculture in the Czech Republic, Marian Jurečka, showed other examples of unfair treatment of Eastern Europeans.
He brought to light analyzes that a popular brand of iced tea sold in the Czech Republic has 40% less tea extract than the same bottle sold in Germany. And in the Czech Republic, this iced tea is more expensive.
A similar difference was also found for the can brand of the same type. While on the German market they contained real pork, those in the Czech Republic had processed chicken.
A comparative analysis of the University of Chemical Technology in Prague found that of the 24 products studied (chocolate, cheese, margarine, coffee) in one third of them there are significant differences between composition and quality.
For this reason, the Visegrad Four from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland are formed. Their aim is to put an end to this practice by asking the European Commission for a law obliging manufacturers to offer goods of the same quality and taste throughout Europe.
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