Summary of newspapers of the previous days – 7.1. - 9.1.2011

Huge flocks of cormorants liquidate fish population

Overproliferated cormorants decimate fish population - mainly on rivers now in winter where they agglomerate from frozen lakes and ponds. They attack in huge flocks and in organized skirmished lines. An area is looked through by explorers at first which then bring the rest of flock - a part has a role of beater-ups in hunt. “In our districts, cormorants commit the biggest damages on the river Třebůvka in Vlčice now. I guess that a flock of as many as eighty birds come together there. Such a big flock has never been yet there. Cormorants appear even in a town”, an agent of fishery organization in Loštice, Vlastislav Heidenreich told.

Case of poisoned eggs: Slovaks stopped food from Germany

Slovakia as the first European country used what Czech authorities do not want to do for the present. Slovakian Ministry of Agriculture announced on Friday that it stopped temporarily sale of eggs and chicken meat from Germany where foods contaminated by carcinogenic dioxins had appeared. According to a server Spiegel Online, in Germany, the dioxin scandal has already affected 13 of 16 federative countries and authorities have preventively closed owing to it more than 4700 farms.

SZIP publishes total results of stum checks over 2010

In November 2010, the State Agricultural and Food Inspection finished checks of sale of stum or partially fermented grape must which can be sold only from the beginning of August to the end of November. It has now at disposal the second in sequence and also final results of laboratory analyses. Inspectors examined just in place sale hygiene, documents on stum origin and also whether the beverage is correctly marked. An aim of the analyses was than to reveal possible adulteration of this beverage.

Docking only with certificate

Docking of piglets is substantiated by a prevention against cannibalism. However, in Norther Rhine-Westphalia it will be allowed only on base of veterinary certificate. Norther Rhine-Westphalia. Docking in piglets after delivery should be significantly reduced in this country already from the 1st of January this year when a new notice of the Ministry for climate, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation, and Consumer Protection (MKULNV) came into force.