It took dozens of food scandals for the government to consider dissolving the National Food Authority.
In September last year, with the amendments made to the draft law " On inspections in the Republic of Albania", in its article 60 it is stated that the National Food Authority and the National Veterinary and Plant Protection Authority will be replaced with the words "the institution responsible for the inspection and official control of food and feed" and "the structure responsible for the inspection and official control of veterinary and plant protection ".
So, to put it simply, these two structures, the food and veterinary and plant structures, will be in a single institution.
This was also confirmed by the Minister of Agriculture, Anila Denaj, in a public statement.
The law should be implemented by the end of 2025 as the legal acts have not yet been issued.
In the controls that the National Food Authority carried out during March, it was found that dozens of tons of chicken meat with salmonella had entered Albania, but that was not all.
Earlier, tons of mandarins sent from Albania to Croatia were found to contain pesticides.
In the midst of the contaminated food scandal, regarding the quantity of chicken meat with salmonella imported into Albania from Brazil, Tirana police announced a search for the owner of the company that imported them and prosecuted the owner of the company that distributed them on the Albanian market.
Three AKU inspectors are also being investigated, who according to the police have allowed meat with salmonella bacteria to enter the market.