Concerns raised on quality of imported food in Kosovo

An amount of meat imported to Kosovo from Belgium became a cause for re-establishing concerns about the quality of imported foods.

Associations dealing with consumer protection express disgruntled with the degree of law enforcement in this area, while citizens say they feel insecure about imported foods that they do not, according to them, submit to proper control, reports the Voice of America.

Media in Belgium, which are reporting on the broken meat scandal in their country, meat that was exported to Kosovo as well from the company “Vevaba” from Bastogne, have discovered that this is not the only company that has exported rotten meat to our country.

Belgian public broadcaster, French language, RTBF, has reported that even the company “Vanlommel” from Herentals, specialising in beef, has been caught sending rotten meat to Kosovo.

However, according to the company, this was only “a human error”.

Last August, a 20-tonn amount of meat with signature labels “Vanlommel” has been seized at the Kosovo border. That was after the meat destined for our consumer had expired.

The address to Kosovo for accepting this meat has been the company “Europa IDA”, the same company involved in the “Vevaba” scandal.