Public health officers to check Asian restaurants over milk

By ČTK / Published 26 September 2008


Prague, Sept 25 (CTK) - Sanitary inspectors will start to check Asian restaurants in the Czech
Republic in order to see whether they do not sell products from contaminated milk from China, chief
sanitary inspector Michael Vit said Thursday.

The Czech Republic will join other countries that have increased protective measures after four
Chinese children died and another 53,000 have fallen ill with kidney stones because of milk
contaminated with toxic melamine.

Vit said officially no milk products from China should be sold in the country because the EU banned
their imports in 2002 already.

Besides, the European Commission has decided to also ban imports of food for children that contains
milk from China, such as chocolate and biscuits, for preventative reasons.

Martina Smidtova, spokeswoman for the State Agricultural and Food Inspection (SZPI), said the
health risk posed by the possible use of Chinese milk in biscuits, for instance, is minimal and
therefore the SZPI does not plan any general checks of food imported from China.