Minister: EU can have law against dual food quality by 2019

European legislation that would deal with the double standards on food quality can be adopted within a year and a half, Czech Agriculture Minister Marian Jurecka (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) told journalists on Tuesday. He said that the European Commission had recommended to eastern European countries late last month that they use some of the present EU regulations to fight the practice of identically branded products being sold with lower-quality ingredients than in the west. Jurecka said these rules, however, relied on the readiness of individual EU member states to cooperate.