You probably heard the saying at least once – “What you eat”!
As a rule, this means that if we eat healthy, quality, checked food, we will be healthy ourselves.
Otherwise unhealthy, low-quality, processed, refined food will very quickly in the body to cause a disbalance.
Consuming such foods for a longer period of time can also cause severe diseases such as various types of cancers.
What kind of food are Bosnians and Herzegovina and what does it all end up on the shelves of our stores?
Most imported suspicious quality
More than 80 percent of the food consumed by the citizens of our country arrives from imports. Less than 20 percent are produced in BiH, they say in the Association of Farmers of the Federation of BiH.
The worst is that most of the imported foods, according to Nedzad, will, the president of the Association, Suspicious Quality – a Vegetable that very often contains excessive amounts of pesticides, meat that the inhabitants of the countries arrive, do not want to eat.
– From year to year, the situation is worse, and increasing the imports of contributions and climate change that destroy domestic production – adds beic.
He says all over the borders arrive all and everything, and the reason I would oppose the liberal, free market, unlike some other countries that descend and raise ramps at borders when it is in their interest.
– No one will sell anything that is good. This is all that imports from other countries are their surpluses, Štkart, the goods of the poor quality they want to persuade, and that most often ends in the countries in the Balkans. In states with a regulated system, a peach containing huge amounts of pesticides cannot be entered with the arranged system. Thus other products, meat and other foods. We could recently read that people were arrested by Europe who took off and rewritten declarations with meat, cans, and then sent them to sale. In our country, the goods of doubtful quality passes the border, then after a while before a period of time or the market – the congregation of beings in the occasion 16. October World Food Day.
But in the Federal Institute for Agriculture, whose laboratory controls the market of greater BH. entities and imports, say “how rare situations of overruns are allowed concentrations of pesticide and heavy metals in groceries.”
– We still control microbiological correctness and nutritional ingredients in food and can say that at the level of the year, the overruns are one percent, which is statistically very little – added by Dr. Harun Kurtagić, Head of the Department of Lifestyle Control in the Federal Institute for Agriculture.
We don’t know if the grocery is a hundred percent safe
From what Kurtagic said can conclude that the annual deviations are in the correctness of food, which consumed by the citizens of the FBiH, at the statistical error level.
On the other hand, in neighboring Croatia, due to the identified malfunction and uncertainty, the products are drawn from sale, which the competent institutions regularly inform the population.
The question arises, as it is possible that Croatia is almost on the daily basis, due to the fault and uncertainty, withdraws one or more products from the sale, and that everything arrives in BiH properly and secure?
Kurtagić responds “as he often asks himself that question, and that the matter is organized by the state, subordination, cooperation between the competent authorities.”
– Although I attended a lot of round tables, organized by the BiH Food Safety Agency, we have never managed to specify the responsibility of the food control laboratories. We have no specialist laboratories for a particular type of search and that is a problem. The range of each of our laboratories is very limited as opposed to the European Union whose laboratories have precisely defined responsibilities and those in that zone of responsibilities must achieve all capacities – technical, human, professional. In our country, we are not the case, we have a fairly disregarded system and that is why we do not have a complete picture – whether it is a food for a hundred percent correct and safe to consume – emphasizes Kurtagic.
The BiH Food Safety Agency, as a roof organization, should provide the results of food control results on the quarterly basis. Kurtagić says that “he doesn’t know if it’s done and how much it is.”
– There is no lab in a world that can do everything. Examples works, for control of food pesticide residues, the European Directive prescribes more than 400 pesticides, regardless of whether it is food of plant or animal origin. We don’t have any laboratories that can cover it. The Laboratory of the Federal Institute for Agriculture is one of the most competent pesticides, but we are only halfway, and this includes the purchase of equipment, the expansion of capacity, number of employees, because better equipment requires better trained people – emphasizes Kurtagić.
59,054 food samples worked last year
In the food safety agency, I would say that 59,054 food samples are processed last year, counting and drinking water.
– In 2024. The largest number of food samples, taking water from the category “Meats of cattle, poultry and game, and ready-made dishes – 24.67 percent on its base – 13.68 percent and milk and dairy – 5.13 percent. Based on processed results of laboratory analyzes on physical and chemical and microbiological parameters, the highest percentage of food samples was in category meat (0.97 percent), and produced by its database (0.16 percent) and the agreements from the Agency.
When it comes to microbiological analysis of the food in the specified period, from 33,898 of the food samples, the Type of microorganisms, from the Agency, which is the highest prevalence (relation between the number of samples) was in the presence of Escherichia Coli, Enterobacteria spp and yeasts and mold.
– These data were collected for the purpose of risk assessment, and the results of official controls, including food, cannot be interpreted that the results of these analyzes were available in the market with end consumers – emphasize the Agency.
According to their words, it should be borne in mind that “on the way from the production phase, processing, processing and distribution, food is exposed to a series of biological (bacteria, viruses and veterinary medicinal products) and physical dangers (eg foreign bodies).”
– Given that, with the case that food is very sensitive, absolute security is not possible to achieve, and is therefore based on the concept of risk analysis, which includes the risks of food from food – they said in the Food Safety Agency, Transfers Factor.
