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Prague and Warsaw square up for food fight

Fri, Apr 27 2012 14:03 CET

byEmily Thompson - The Prague Post

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Prague and Warsaw square up for food fight

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The discovery of industrial salt in food products that were likely imported from Poland has led to a brackish dispute between the two countries over the quality of Polish food and highlighted the limits imposed by the European Union common market.

Polish media reports earlier in the year revealed some food companies had been processing food with industrial salt, which is a waste product of the chemical industry, according to the Czech Agricultural and Food Inspection Authority (SZPI). The industrial salt, which is used for de-icing highways, for example, is suspected to have been sold to many Polish sausage producers, fish processing companies, dairies and bakeries, which produce food that was subsequently exported to the Czech Republic.

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