Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 4.11. 2009

Mark, mark, but correctly!

People from the State Veterinary Administration check not only health unobjectionality of food but also whether customers are not deceived. Inspectors of the Regional Veterinary Administration for the region Zlín for this reason sampled frozen, glazed filets from Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) from China and Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) for laboratory examination with the aim to verify an amount of fish component (fish meat) declared on the label. The laboratory examination found out that filets contain less amount of fish component than a producer states.

Lesy ČR wants to get rid of property for hundreds of millions

The state enterprise Lesy České republiky will sell unnecessary property in estimated value of hundreds of million crowns in form of auctions during next year. Roughly it is dealt with thousand to fifteen hundred of buildings with neighbouring lands and farm buildings. A head of investment and property department of the enterprise, Jaroslav Zezula, confirmed it to MF DNES today. However, still it is not decided which realties and lands will be for sale. “At the break of the year we will only decide about a concrete property for sale but we will sale.”

Experts: Law regulating chins can increase food prices

A law regulating relations between trade chains and their suppliers, which was definitively passed by the Chamber of Deputies in spite of the president´s veto, can raise prices of foods on shelves in shops and also it can decrease willingness of tradesmen to take goods from Czech firms. Experts agree on it and their opinions are shared also by representatives of the tradesmen. Michaela Thelenová from a consultancy company KPMG ČR communicated to ČTK that the approved law on significant market power and its misuse can have an unfavourable influence on free functioning of market and food prices.

Wine and spirit consumption in Europe

Consumption of alcohol in Switzerland slightly decreased, from 8,8 l in 2007 to 8,7 l of pure alcohol per person in 2008. Consummation of spirits (4 l of 40 % spirit) and beer (58 l) is stable; consumption of wine decreases in the long term (in 2008 decrease in wine by 0,8 l to 38,6 l, in case of fruit wine by 0,1 l to 1,6 l). The total consumption of 100 % spirit in 2008 was 123 704 hl which year-on-year is by 2,8 % more but it is owing to increase of population. Consumption of 100 % spirit during the last 10 years permanently decreases but consumption of 40 % spirits grows (by 0,4 l, mainly imported whisky). As late as from 1999 Czech producers are allowed to produce spirits from starch-containing raw-materials (cereals, potatoes).