Is food quality supervision in Poland effective?

Published 2021년 5월 7일

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The article highlights the increased supervision of agri-food product commercial quality, with the Commercial Quality Inspection of Agricultural and Food Products (IJHARS) taking over from the Trade Inspection on July 1, 2020. IJHARS now oversees the retail trade and online stores, ensuring compliance with food safety, labeling, and GMO labeling. The 2020 inspections revealed issues with organoleptic and physicochemical characteristics of food, labeling inconsistencies, and quality problems with fresh produce and potatoes. Preliminary inspections in the first quarter of 2021 identified issues with the organoleptic characteristics, physicochemical parameters, and labeling of agricultural products, noting a decrease in non-compliance errors from the previous year.

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Consolidation of supervision over the commercial quality of agri-food products increased the effectiveness of control, it can check food at producers, shops and restaurants. In 2020, 1.7 thous. entities - said Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ryszard Bartosik. However, is food quality supervision really as effective as the people responsible for it would like? "After nearly a year of operation of the increased scope of the Inspection of the commercial quality of Agricultural and Food Products, we observe its greater effectiveness. The combination of tasks contributed to the more effective elimination of unfair practices in the production and circulation of food, due to faster information flow and standardization of control procedures" - he emphasized during Bartosik's press conference on Thursday. He recalled that from July 1, 2020, the Commercial Quality Inspection of Agricultural and Food Products (IJHARS) took over from the Trade Inspection supervision over the commercial quality ...

Source: SwiatRolnika