Control Disorder in Food

A control chaos is experienced in respect of food. The government’s transfer, by a decree, of food control from the Health Ministry to the Agriculture Ministry created a gap in control.

The Health Ministry will transfer its 500 environment health technicians to the Agriculture Ministry next week for them to perform the food control.
Thus, the Agriculture Ministry will carry out the controls, which were previously carried out by 44 thousand personnel by the Health ministry, with only 500 personnel.

In the Agriculture Ministry, there is also no machine, vehicle, equipment and laboratory necessary for yje food control as well as inadequate personnel. Besides, it is stated that the personnel to perform the food control must work and be specialized in this field at least for 5 years.