DSVSA calls consumers

The director of the Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate (DSVSA) Vaslui, Mihai Ponea, asked the consumers to be careful where they buy their foods for the Easter meal, at the same time warning the economic agents operating in the food industry to comply with the legislation in force.

The head of DSVSA Vaslui stressed that during this period the trade in food is increased in the context of approaching the Easter holidays, with the risk that people will buy non -compliant products. He transmitted that controls in markets and fairs will be intensified, but also to the economic operators who work in the public food sector and specific actions will take place to identify any clandestine meat transports for marketing.

‘In the next period of us, consumers, first of all, are up to not buy dog ​​meat, which would be absurd in Romania and would be an illegality and a crime if someone would market such a thing. In order not to happen, this is important to buy only from authorized places and never accept to buy from the edge of the street. (…) There are some who make trout, do at various private tables lamb, pork and other dishes without having any authorization and warns us that we cannot enter their yard although we have information from citizens, we have images as they sacrifice animals, they market, they put on the market all kinds of products. It is not a dog meat, I have never met in Vaslui County, but it is possible because the differences are not extraordinarily big in the housing, but the substitution of beef with the horse is practiced, « said Mihai Ponea, in a press conference.

The head of DSVSA Vaslui also said that during this period it was also decided to intensify the border controls considering the increase in the number of people coming to the country from the Republic of Moldova and the risk of meat transports in the neighboring state, especially since several outbreaks of African swine fever have been confirmed.

Mihai Ponea also reiterated the importance of complying with all the measures established by the sanitary-veterinary authorities, against the backdrop of outbreaks in Hungary and Slovakia.