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Counterfeiters of food

Counterfeiters of food


Polish food producers are beginning to follow Western methods of manufacture
Industrial methods in agriculture and food processing often result in falsification of products and customers studded bottle.
The winner is the one who produce cheaper, and its products are "vicious." Where are the days when the characteristics of butchers competed quality products? Today is better than one who sells the most. What is a wiener? What is its composition? These questions are no nutritionist did not respond.

In the frankfurter may be meat, but it is not necessary - according to one of the employees of the Trade Inspection. - When checking the goods, we are only interested in what the manufacturer gave up. If, after examining the composition of the sample agrees with the declared, everything is fine. Sausage may be, for example, a few ground ingredients, not necessarily of animal origin. There you can add even toilet paper, so long as a whole was not harmful to health. In addition, everyone has the right to name your product, as he pleases. It was just that the manufacturer decided to call it something sausage.
Poisoning in Polish


Inspections found that what is sold to us as bread and roll, is in most products similar to bead or simila to protein. Some manufacturers add grated bread bun, sometimes gypsum and creatine derived from human hair, bought in hairdressing.

In May this year, the Trade Inspection has published a report on the inspection of several large chain stores. Reviewed ladybird, a network of Champion, Elea, Leader Price, Lidl, Real, Tesco and AHOLD. Inspectors found that the quality of 24 percent. Examined the goods was much lower than claimed.
The worst came out dairy products. One third of them do not meet the standards listed on the packaging. Processed fruits and vegetables have defects in 26.3 per cent. canned fish at 24.5 and meat almost 24 percent. The inspection also revealed that the meat be "inappropriate to the organoleptic characteristics" (just stink - ed) in smoked bacon said "the presence of clusters of jelly, juice leakage, texture and rubbery little fragile, acidic taste, odor slightly unclean."

In turn, canned fish to "smell slightly bitter, slightly metallic taste and are faint." To make things worse also known as organic food is often falsified similar methods. When carried out in 2004 in 211 organic food outlets trading in control of the Trade Inspection found many deficiencies. 56 percent meats contain preservatives allowed. Laboratory studies have questioned the quality of 48 percent. milk and milk products and 41 percent. meat and meat products.

The research analyzed by Valentina Rakiel-Czarnecka, an expert on food from the PSL, shows that almost one in four mineral water or spring water (the market is the approximately 500 types) is just an ordinary water from tap. - Few producers is fair. Since a few years ago reduced a rule determining the level of minerals contained in 1 liter from 1000 to 200 mg, practically everyone who had a well, he could begin production of water - said Rakiel-Czarnecka.
The real drama began after the introduction of the 2001 Act which allows for passwords printed on stickers on the medicinal effects of this product. Discharged so: anti-stress, slimming, etc., which was not any specific reasons. But such a deceptive ad effectively allured consumers.

Fortunately we are still virgin country in terms of "upgrading" of food. - Polish agricultural produce have a better biological value than the products of intensive agriculture, thanks to the west, that we consume three times less mineral fertilizers, and ten times less pesticide - Dr. Ursula Soltysiak inform the WAU. Although in the past 10 years consumption of mineral fertilizers in Poland has risen by almost 15 percent, there is still much smaller than in the EU, not to mention Japan (almost twice bigger than in the EU). Many poor areas in Poland have never fertilized, and grown crops on them is not sprayed with pesticides. So we had a blessing in disguise, Polish agriculture was, until recently, because extensive character, and the products of small family farms are organic in the best sense of the word.



A green light from EU


However, after our accession to the EU industry no longer apply nutritional standards from the 80s With hindsight I must admit that they were not the worst. Define the composition of the product, its weight, color or taste. It was not - as today - full of freedom in the production technology and nomenclature.

Yet April 24, 1997 in Poland, passed a law strictly prohibiting the return of meat and meat products from store shelves to the manufacturer. After the Polish accession to the EU ceased to apply, however, opening the box to "refresh" the products. Also, the scope of permissible food chemicalization significantly increased. - After the Polish accession to the European Union the number authorized for use in food additives has more than doubled - says Dr. Soltysiak.

Spells-mary, which is great spoilage


Until recently, one hundred kilograms of meat quality were allowed to produce 52 kg or 86 kg cabanas ham. "Performance" of these products was 52 percent, respectively and 86 percent. Today, the same quantity of meat produced 200 kilograms or more "noble" sausages. The meat is injected into the water with nitrates and nitrites, water binders, phosphates adding sausage fragility improvers. - The pound of meat can safely make 1.5 kg of ham. The manufacturer shall in accordance with the provisions of the commodity information that the ham is inflated with water. It reads: "the product of highly efficient" - says Rakiel-Czarnecka.

It is no different from poultry products that have little to do with poultry. They are produced from the IMO, which is separated poultry meat. It is a mixture of ground bone, cartilage, bone, tendons. By 1995, the use of this specyfiku prohibited. Now it is not. The addition of MOM-on significantly lowers production costs.
EU standards for mercury apply only to fish. Even more tolerant is right on Cadmium - a highly carcinogenic metal. After May 1, 2004 to Polish food can be reduced with increased contents.

According to Lidia Lorek of the Warsaw Agricultural University, in accordance with EU legislation for food may be added 500 additional chemicals. In the technological process can be used thousands of them. That is why today, as never before, food manufacturers care about their beauty products. Beautiful salmon pink color additive owe their beta-carotene. Aerated drinks suitable color pigments whose names begin with the letter "E". Recently, it was loud about how to add the peppers dangerous dye called Sudan, and add-ons colorizing sweets in black and navy still give rise to disputes among nutritionists.

Psycho-technology and money


The main engine of industrial food production methods are flowing away billions in profits. Phil Angell, director of corporate communications for Monsanto, told the New York Times: "The company Monsanto should not be forced into a gracious provision of guarantees for food safety based on biotechnology. Our interest is to sell it as much as possible. And to ensure its safety is a job for Food and Drug Administration. " Pecunia non olet.
The U.S. company Smithfield in the U.S. was the highest ever punished by a fine for multiple violations of the Act water quality. A few years ago, Smithfield began operations in Poland. His property is such Constar SA company in Starachowice, who won fame recently detected by the journalists out; "refresh" spoiled food. Nevertheless, the group has in our country quite well.

Also, advertising and marketing firms can eat well on the occasion. Every day we are bombarded with ridiculous propaganda. It follows that the best food for children and their parents are chocolate bars, quench thirst and the best sweet drinks or beer. And how, remembers the health of citizens! For years, we are told that the vegetable oil containing polyunsaturated fats, are healthier than the traditional, composed of saturated animal fats. But to give plant oil gel consistency butter, add a number of thickening substances to the health of butter or margarine plant put into question! Besides, any ad agency shall examine the quality of your product before you convince us that without him we can not live?

Sophisticated methods of conditioning customers from product uses the industry itself. Recently, food technologists have discovered that there is a fifth taste, next to taste salty, sweet, bitter and sour. It's umami. Asiatic people known for a long time. Substances which cause the impression there are such in some Asian mushrooms. Make the dish taste very gains. We can not say why this is so, because I can not describe this effect savory known to us in terms of taste. But we look happy after the "umami" products. The problem is that it has developed a chemical equivalent of natural umami, or monosodium glutamate. His impact on the human body is not fully identified, known, however, that the substance in large quantities is harmful to health. Producers know, however, that using this substance can bind to each consumer's filth. Umami lure all of us.

Another issue is the breeding. Open secret is adding to the feed and food for birds, growth hormones and antibiotics that are given prophylactically to prevent herds decimating infections. Applying antibiotics to healthy animals is illegal in Poland. But as the inspectors are inspecting the manufacturer to prove that the presence of antibiotics in meat is not clear from the recent infections?

Moreover, even if producers act in accordance with the law, it permits the use of artificial feed, vitamins and enhancers. And this is usually a mixture of saturated chemistry, industrial plants and animal waste (animal, which were bred by the same method).

Milk without cows


At every step we are skillfully misled by food manufacturers. Cheese, which should be produced from milk, are counterfeit with vegetable oils. Milk and kefir are often made of powder. Here we go trail of big Western, which are building factories of milk products in such areas in the world for cheap labor - for example in Morocco - where a few hundred kilometers in radius is not a single cow. And all this happens in the majesty of the law of the Polish and EU.

All the food produced by industrial chemistry is saturated. Even that which we perceive as free from unhealthy ingredients. Examples of products that can be labeled as "light". In Poland there is no legal definition of the term. Therefore, each manufacturer can use it as he wishes. Those who refrain from the use of sugar in products as "light", adding chemicals, imitating the taste of sugar. They are often incomparably more dangerous to health than regular sucrose. Like for example aspartame, approved for use only in small doses.

But what happens when these small amounts are eaten regularly? What about those consumers who are drinking carbonated beverages as "light" not only in hot days? Besides, very often products containing sweeteners "light" are not free from sugar. Manufacturers only reduce its content in whole sugar products.

Teams of inspectors
We are studying a variety of food inspection. And all ailing. Between them is not a good flow of information, also are subject to three different ministries - agriculture, health, and the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection.

Experts from the health food agree that the last checks are too random.

Dr. Zbigniew Halat, an epidemiologist (in three successive governments of the principal sanitary inspector), he says straight out that people involved in controlling food manufacturers corrupted the same way as pharmaceutical companies doctors.

I know many cases where the producers changed the course of the control declaration on the composition of the product - the following long standing employee of Quality Inspection of Agricultural and Food from the southern Polish. Employees familiar with environmental inspections. - Employer profiles there are two groups of people: old men just before retirement and young people after graduation. Neither one nor the other does not pay to lean. Everybody knows that companies are not allowed. Young people gain experience and go to another, better paid jobs, and the old in peace waits for retirement. Moreover, the penalties are ridiculous - from 500 to 1000 PLN.

The Curse of the BSE


- All measures are added to food, and have relevant certificates, can be used. But no one examined what effects the human body may have various mixtures and combinations of several components at once. Certainly it's not healthy - he says Rakiel-Czarnecka.

Waldemar Starosta, food specialist with the Defense, argues that the polyphosphates are used mainly for mass production of sausages. - These compounds very bad influence on bone. They are especially dangerous for young children - he says.


Scientists are generally more soberly. To know something for sure - stress - you would have to be carried out for several decades’ clinical experiments on humans. At the event, so do not panic recommend. Reassuring messages from today, do not reach the public opinion in EU countries and the United States. Meat and bone meal, which became a vehicle for BSE, also was for years considered to be safe. Is it really improvers and preservatives, pesticides and herbicides approved for use in manufacturing and agriculture are safe?

Among the researchers they are ongoing disputes, how safe are the chemicals legally allowed to be eaten in specific doses. - Preservatives are foreign substances introduced into the product. Most are intended to prevent bacterial growth, and so - let's call the first name - they are poison. Perhaps their doses are always respected, but we are not sure whether there will be no sudden change in their characteristics, for example, under the influence of external factors - said publicly prof. Stanisław Zareba the Medical University of Lublin.

"Considerable importance in human pathology is also a large volume of waste from factory farms emerging microbial aerosols, ammonia and odor. Effects of manure contamination of surface and underground water reservoirs are inherently remote and barely visible by the public water "- Dr. Halat said. In January 2004, the American Public Health Association has called on the authorities to introduce a moratorium on new locations of industrial pig farms and to support the extensive research on the effects on human health, water and air pollution caused by chemization processes. In the U.S., these kinds of expensive study are already in the 60s, yet non-governmental organizations monitoring the health of society urgy government to a much more resolute action.

In Poland, such studies do not have the money. They should, however, to find, because every year there are more than 2 thousand food poisoning substances not used in pharmacotherapy.

Every second a baby born today suffer from allergies - one of the most common symptoms caused by chemical contamination of the environment. A growing number of cancer for which we are accustomed to say "civilization." But what does this really mean? Where is their primary source?

The author defended dissertation on one of the agricultural colleges to compare the number of recycled dead animals in the 80 and 90 it turned out that within a decade their number has decreased tenfold. Do not want to make allegations of conspiracy theory marks. But - as suggested by the caller, who pushed us to the trail - whether by accident carrion, which got lost somewhere, do not eat the buyer the cheapest meats, or feed the animals fed suspicious of the big farms?

How to defend


Customers should carefully check the labels of what they are buying. Choose products with natural color, bread without a prolonged period of validity, as little processed food. In winter and spring it is worth to buy frozen foods, which rarely get the additional substances. Forget to frankfurters after 3 PLN per kilo, great-looking fruit, understand that the chocolate beautifully bright because they are coated with special shining substances. So chemicals.

It should also be remembered that the traditional national dishes have the advantage over the culinary innovations that their safety has been tested by previous generations living in the territory.

At legislators must face the demand to restore industry standards, which will protect the quality of Polish products and their position in export markets. Moreover, the EU does not prohibit the introduction of national standards.

However, the industrial food uncompromising defenders look invention described last year by New Scientist. American nutrition experts developed for the U.S. Army special filter. It allows a soldier's right to food, before eating which is mixed with water, mixed with urine. Confidence in food from fast food and modern science tells us to reckon with the fact that hamburgers made with urine persists hamburgerowi taste of water. Enjoy your meal!


Author: Source: www.onet.pl