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The Rosselkhoznadzor has circulated information about the methods of falsification of dairy products: experts of the fgbi "ARRIAH" systematized and told the details of the tricks resorted to unscrupulous manufacturers of dairy products.

Including was called and such extreme methods like: add to milk starch, chalk, soap, soda, lime, boric or salicylic acid. But do today, the milk products are counterfeited this way?





Of the history falsification

This work (despite its relevance) actually can be called a digression into the history of fraud. Technological progress does not stand still, and today, unscrupulous manufacturers have much more sophisticated methods of falsifications, than banal and outdated the addition of chalk, plaster or soda. Such a "grandma" methods nowadays in use is that the traders in the markets.

The dairy industry has at its disposal high-tech equipment, and now falsification is carried out using the most advanced technologies. Dairy products are counterfeited so that it can remain unnoticed not only ordinary consumers but also for regulators: making a complete or partial replacement of the fat phase of milk or recovery milk from powdered raw materials.

The real extent of fraud in the dairy market

They can draw conclusions based on our numerous studies of the dairy market regularly convened by consumers Union "Roskontrol".

Over the past two years we have tested 144 product names. And more than 60% turned out to be falsified or their marks had introduced the buyer to deceive.





Today falsifiziert dairy products?

The most common method, which now uses unscrupulous manufacturers in order to fake dairy products – replacement of milk fat with cheaper vegetable. This allows them to considerably reduce their production costs. And deceiving the consumers: after all, according to the Technical regulation "On safety of milk and dairy products" neither in the cheese nor butter, nor milk, nor cheese — vegetable fat can not be in principle!

Only possible to use in dairy products vegetable fat on legal grounds – be sure to specify in the marking. And the name of such products should be appropriate: the oil becomes a spread, cheese and cheese product.

Another of those systemic disorders that we have identified in dairy products, the addition of starch in the cheese and sour cream stabilizers. Which is also prohibited in the Technical regulations. In milk, butter revealed the presence of preservatives. All of these ingredients on the label of the goods provided, of course, was not.

Also more than 10% of the tested dairy products had serious violations in the labeling: introduced consumer confusion regarding the names or properties of the products. This "pseudobetckea" products with cartoon characters for children is not suitable, and spreads, mimicking the butter, and the tiny letters on the labels to read that without a magnifying glass is simply impossible.

Impunity in the industry

In addition to the above new technologies, into the hands of unscrupulous manufacturers play and the fact that their activity is not restricted. Penalties for fraud are minimal, and supervision by the state is clearly insufficient.

 



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Reducing the cost of their products due to adulteration and deterioration, counterfeit manufacturers to make market honest players, which make really quality products, but can not withstand price competition. In the end, the dairy industry is not developed, but on the contrary degrades. Policy and industry Union, which in fact, is actively lobbying for the lowering of the quality of the products and the activities of producers of fake, only contributes to this process. published

 

Author: Alexander Borisov

 



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