New food watchdog to be created from smaller bodies

Although the works on the creation of the new state office for the inspection of the food sector, which has been kept secret, are in their preliminary phase, it is known that the new watchdog is to take over responsibilities from several smaller offices. The Agriculture Ministry has set up a special expert group for food security, which is to create the National Inspection for Food Control. Detailed plans concerning this office will be revealed by the end of March. Representatives of the sector and entrepreneurs operating in the segment, are glad that such works have been initiated, as long as the consolidation of the inspection offices will lead to lower bureaucracy and savings. The people who fear this idea the most are the employees of the current inspection offices, who are afraid that the reorganization will lead to mass lay offs. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4, 5) A.K.