Summary of newsmakers of the previous day - 13. 02. 2007

Listeria lurked also in bacon

Veterinarians founded out increased amount of dangerous bacteria listeria in English bacon produced in a premise in Litoměřice region last week. The bacon was recalled from sale immediately. Petr Pilous, an assistant manager of the Regional Veterinary Administration in Ústí nad Labem said it today. According to Pilous, the firm whose name veterinarians do not want to published before end of investigation of the whole case found out the contamination of English bacon by dangerous bacteria itself during its regular examinations. It informed the Veterinary Administration which confirmed listeria.

Bigger safety against disasters

The agrarian sector during its entrepreneurial activity meets enormous riskness of work. It is necessarily to put a question how to continue in agricultural insurance; what to do further at all in increasing riskness of agricultural production? Unquestionably the riskness of enterprise in agriculture grows more and more. It grows in consequence of many factors. The first is deepening of ups and downs of weather which we are witnesses of, whether it is floods, catastrophic droughts, or rains and frosts. Let's remember just till this time singular phenomenon - growing (germinating) of cereals in last year's harvest.

Policy: Pitr obtained Setuza illegally

A cause of the front food firm Setuza, which is in execution, is in hands of Prague prosecution. In next weeks it will decide on whether it will charge Tomáš Pitr with a crime for that he overruled Setuza illegally in 2000. The daily Právo drew attention to a fact that the police handed over the proposal for Pitr's accusation to the prosecution last week. “The decision in these cases when a procurator has to read over records of thousands of pages can fall in a month or two”, said Martin Omelka from Prague prosecution to HN. The police after five years of investigation blame Pitr for obtaining Setuza illegally for valueless papers of firms from which he brought out valuable stocks. Also Michal Zouhar, a former boss of the firm Český olej, is accused. Finally, he became a formal owner of Setuza in 2000. Pitr indicated himself only as a firm consultant though he obviously managed it.

District officer wants to lob for Moravian wines in Europe

South-Moravian district officer Stanislav Juránek is going to lob in Brussels so that the European Union would not subsidize liquidation of vineyards. He wants to convince politics and officers of it tomorrow and on Wednesday at a meeting of the Committee of Union Regions. Juránek believes that Moravian viticulture deserve a more significant propagation. In Juránek's opinion the Union should invest earmarked money in propagation of vine and viticulture and to support competitiveness of domestic vine-growers towards products from South America and Africa. “Before admission in the European Union our vine-growers planted out 9000 hectares of vineyards. Thanks to it many workplaces were created in viticulture and quality of South-Moravian wine improved”, Juránek reported. Also that's why he is against so that the Union would subsidized their stumping already several years after planting out the vineyards.