Govt official urges EU regulations to prevent double standards of food

European Union regulations are needed to eliminate the double standards of food products sold in western and eastern Europe, a government official told public radio on Thursday. Robert Zsigo, the farm ministry's state secretary for food chain supervision, noted that a 2018 European Commission review of 64 products found 20 products with quality discrepancies between the products sold in eastern and western Europe. Zsigo quoted the EC commissioner's opinion on the results as saying that "double standards in food quality are not a myth". The EC's Joint Research Centre in December 2018 expanded the review to involve 100 products from 19 countries, Zsigo said. "The farm ministry advises citizens to buy products grown and processed in Hungary until the EU regulates production in a satisfactory manner," Zsigo said.