It is true that the history of Salmonella Ohio was Belgium gave me a little dizzy. Yet the two protagonists, in this case, AFSCA (Belgian equivalent of AFSSA) and Test-Achats, consumer association in Belgium have all my sympathy about the quality of work. I say it regularly in a newsletter before I realize that technology for a certain time. In fact, this is transparency on food safety … so bound up in each niche.
According actu24.be, “The consumers’ association Test-Achats critical lack of transparency in this case, the AFSCA who had communicated on the subject than October 21. Serving on the advisory AFSCA which met Wednesday, Test-Achats found it useful to draw lessons from this episode and AFSCA encouraged to become more proactive. “We do not deny that legally AFSCA was perhaps not required to disclose on the case but we want more transparency. Opacity fueling rumors said following the meeting, Robert Remy, Test-Achats.
Indeed, a press AFSCA “was that the European regulations in slaughterhouses tolerate up to 10% of pigs infected by Salmonella. This tolerance is explained by the fact that this bacteria is ubiquitous and therefore also present in some farms. When the above percentage is exceeded corrective action must be taken absolutely (disinfection, increased number of tests, etc …).
Faute conclusive results on the basis of measures taken by the institution in the context of his self, AFSCA then takes stronger measures. In this context it has ordered the closure of the slaughter line of pigs in Liège (slaughterhouse Intercommunal de Liège) October 15, 2009, pending a complete reorganization of the installation. This measure was taken upstream of the pig sector is normal and does not directly concern the consumer end of the chain.You can go to buy aion kinah. In this case, the agency had no reason to disclose information relating to an industrial operator individually. Faced with the interest shown by some journalists, AFSCA nevertheless later decided to inform the decision to close “.