Summary of newspapers of the previous days – 5.12.2011

Austrian cheese with content of listeria got on Czech market

Cheese from Austrian producer, which reputedly contained health-risky bacteria listeria, appeared on Czech market. A spokesman of the State Veterinary Administration (SVS) Josef Duben informed CTK on it today. According to him the delivery was determined for chain stores Spar Česká obchodní společnost. SVS got this knowledge from the Union Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF). It is likely that the product has already got in the market network, Duben stated and added that veterinarians start to investigate the case. ČTK looks for Spar´s opinion.

UNO conference on climate enters second phase

After a week of debates of predominantly technical character, an international UNO conference about climatic changes enters the second phase. Till Friday, approximately 130 ministers and several heads of states should find an agreement about a shape of global convention after termination of Kyoto protocol about reduction of green-house gas emissions in 2012. In support of “climatic fairness” thousands people protested in Durban at the weekend. Kyoto protocol from 1997 bound 35 advanced countries to reduce green-house gas emissions by five percents under the 1990 level. However, the protocol has never been signed by the United States and the document refer nor to large developing economies like for example China and India.

Food prices will increase probably by 10 percents next year

Food in the Czech Republic will raise in price by as many as ten percents. Food firms as well as tradesmen agree on it. The reason is not only JUaqnuary increase in value added tax rate, but also growing costs of tradesmen and food producers for example for transport of goods and energy. Food prices increase on shelves of Czech shops already this year whereas Czechs reduce their consumption. “A collection of several unpleasant phenomena concentrates at the beginning of the next year, so I expect the year-on-year increase of food prices by five to ten percents till the end of the first half-year”, a president of the Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism Zdeněk Juračka told. According to his opinion food prices are driven up by weakening crown, increase of upper VAT rate from the present ten to 14 percents, growing prices of commodities on foreign markets, rise in process of transport and energy.

Health-dangerous oat-flakes from Germany appeared on market

German oat-flakes Nordwaldtaler, which are sold also in the Czech Republic, are health dangerous. They contain excessive amount of mycotoxin deoxynivalenol which can invokes vomit and lack of appetite in consumers. By order of the State Agricultural and Food Inspection (SZPI) the product is now being withdrawn from the sale. According to SZPI the flakes were sold by the chain store Lidl. “The company as an checked person was obliged beside other measures to inform SZIP whether these oat-flakes were delivered in community feeding or distributed outside the Czech Republic”, a spokesman of SZPI Michal Spáčil stated.