
A serious scandal has shaken the Albanian food market, after the company AMG FOOD imported 7.8 tons of frozen chicken fillet from Brazil through the Port of Durrës, which after tests were conducted, resulted to be contaminated with salmonella.
Of this amount, authorities have blocked 5.2 tons of meat remaining at the importer, but 2.6 tons have been distributed on the market to Albanian consumers.
Responsible for this dangerous situation is businessman Mond Goxha , owner of the companies AMG FOOD and DIMAL INC, products that are sold in supermarkets and various stores in the country.
One of these markets that sells DIMAL products is BigMarket, owned by MP Vullnet Sinaj.
On March 27, the BigMarket supermarket chain distributed the catalog with Eid offers, offers that last until April 3.
But what stands out is the fact that among the "crazy" offers are also chicken products from DIMAL.
Thus, DIMAL chicken sausages weighing 400 grams are sold 1+1 free for only 299 lek.
Meanwhile, chicken fillet, which normally costs 600 lek, is being sold for 499 lek per kilogram.
Joq writes that citizens have suspicions that this may be a practice by BigMarket to quickly empty the shelves of DIMAL products after the scandal was officially revealed on March 28.
We recall that upon arrival in Albania, the shipment was inspected by the AKU and ISUV, the two institutions responsible for food safety.
Since the discovery of the quantity of chicken fillet with salmonella on March 11, the NFA has not made any notification to the consumer and has issued a statement 1 week after the analyses were conducted.
The shipment resulted in salmonella content but not with an exact name for the type of salmonella.
This was enough for the institutions and the company to make the next pact to sell "poison" on the tables of Albanians.
Even though the chicken meat has been found to be contaminated with salmonella, ISUV, this phantom institution that changes directors every time a food safety scandal breaks out, has decided to deepen the analysis but not to prevent the product from being sold on the market.
The DIMAL company has managed to quietly distribute the infected meat in a supermarket chain consisting of Big Market, Xhangolli and Joena, writes the reply .
7 days after entering Albania, test results showed that the meat was infected with the most serious type of salmonella bacteria that should never have been on the market.