AUV eliminates over half a million pounds of products

The Food and Veterina Agency in the first half of 2024 has eliminated over a million pounds of products.

This is due to failure to meet legal criteria.

So AUV spokesman Lamir Thaci announced about EO.

Thaci said these exterminations have occurred as a result of consumer complaints, as well as economic operators.

He has said that products in Kosovo are controlled according to standards in both the countries of the region and those of the European Union.

In recent weeks we've had two cases of extermination of fish product from import, in both following research conducted overall by AUV, or Veterinary Inspectorate, and after performing and laboratory tests, it has confirmed high suspicion and has shown that there are presences of parasites in these quantities. There are two separate cargo losses in waste dumps, depending on the region where the” incident took place, he said.