European Commission: no evidence of East-West dual food quality

A study comparing the ingredients of food products across the European Union on found that there was no evidence that citizens in eastern EU member states are being sold products of inferior quality – despite officials as senior as EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker championing the issue.

Analysing 71 different products, “no consistent trend of differentiation of products specific to certain geographical regions could be observed,” said the report published on Monday. (MTI)