Fake primary producers on the fruit and vegetable market

The two priority areas of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) and the county government offices to filter out the fake primary producers filtering, and the investigation of the origin of goods and traceability analysis.

During the recent investigations primary producers were checked 26 times in Csongrád county on the wholesale market. Out of 26 investigations in 16 cases the “primary producers” presented a bill on the origin of goods. Inspectors followed the goods to the habitat. In six cases no goods were grown on the spot. In four cases no primary producer's certificate was found.

Such controls have not been completed, and similar checks vanm be expected all over the country.