A customer has contacted JOQ to report an alleged food quality issue at a Mr. Greek fast-food location in Astir, Tirana. According to the pregnant customer, she ordered a souvla…
Food safety expert Ana Vuksani speaks during a broadcast interview, highlighting the urgent need to restructure Albania's fragmented food safety and regulatory framework. TIRANA, Alban…
Authorities in North Macedonia have uncovered significant irregularities in the dairy sector following extensive inspections carried out by the Food and Veterinary Agency of North Macedoni…
Food safety in Albania has become an increasingly debated issue, particularly during the summer season when high temperatures raise the risk of food spoilage and foodborne illnesses. Conce…
Albania’s EU integration process is revealing a harsh economic reality: most businesses are not ready for what is coming. New assessments suggest that as many as 90% of Albanian businesses…
In Albania, a series of alarming scandals involving contaminated food products has led the government to reconsider the role of the National Food Authority (AKU). Despite numerous instance…
The scandal involving the import of eight tons of salmonella-contaminated chicken from Brazil has sparked an intense police investigation in Tirana. Authorities have issued an arrest warra…
Authorities in Tirana have launched an operation to address the importation of contaminated chicken meat from Brazil, which has been found to contain salmonella. According to law enforceme…
The European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has sounded a critical alarm over mandarin imports from Albania, citing dangerous pesticide residues that threaten consumer health…
The Food Control Authority (FCA) has announced that in recent stocks have blocked a large amount of unsafe food in well-known supermarkets, but also by importers mainly from Brazil.…
The meat blocked in the Port of Durrës 387.1 tons of meat were banned by the National Food Authority (NFA) of Albania because lacked the necessary documentation or resulted with salm…
The National Food Authority of Albania has blocked some tones of salt and drinks because of the quality problems. About 20.4 tons of various fruit juices coming from Serbia with the int…
The National Food Authority, while intensifying the controls on terrain, is continuing to strictly control any consignment of foodstuffs entering the territory of the Republic of A…
Those persons who violate food safety and change the food expiration date will be sentenced up to 10 years in prison. This is of what said today the Prime Minister Edi Rama, at th…
The members of the meeting Ensuring the highest level of consumer protection is one of the main tasks of the European Union. European Union Ambassador to Tirana, Luigi Soreca, prese…
The Albanian National Food Authority (AKU) continued intensifying the controls also after the Summer Season, highlighting the problems and taking appropriate measures. Specificall…
Because of the unsafe food all over the globe, nearly 2 million people in the day are sick, who in most cases have to stop going to school, work and other vital activities, becoming thu…
