Agro Perspectiva

the Russian bakers sound alarm

10.04.2007 14:32 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) — As write " Financial News ", the Russian bakers sound alarm. Their business can appear under threat of that every year our compatriots consume ever less than flour products. In comparison with 1970-ìè consumption of bread on the person has decreased almost twice. All this occurs(happens) that at the population the incomes grow, allowing to relieve the monotony of a diet. But there is also other reason. First, many think, that from bread get fat. «Wrongly», — bakers speak. And secondly, Russians are dissatisfied with quality of bread. In the past to year Rospotrebnadzor has revealed those or other infringements almost in each second bakery. Yesterday officials have told, that some bakery products and at all represented " direct threat to health of the population ". " About 50 % of the working personnel in branch have no special vocational training. At carrying out of supervising actions we reveal cases of non-observance of technological process, absence of the technological documentation, infringement of a rule of the admission of the personnel to work with food production and food raw material — absence of medical survey and medical books ", — has declared the deputy chief of management Rospotrebnadzora Andrey Gorsky. As he said, in 2006 on 40 % of bakeries infringements have been fixed(recorded), and 4 % of production mismatched hygienic specifications. Thus some bakery products represented " direct threat to health of the population ". Besides in long loafs and loaves found the ãåííî-modified components. " The manufacturer is obliged to warn of their presence on packing — according to the current legislation ", — speaks A.Gorsky. But pekari this requirement ignore. In fact otherwise their production will cease to buy. Bakers complain, that Russians have stopped loving their production. Still pair tens years ago demand for it(him) was above, than today. And " the historical maximum " has fallen to the period with 1960 for 1970. Then the average Russian in a year ate 170 kg of bread. Today — only 100 kg (muscovites consume less: 70–80 kg) " thus are available the tendency to reduction in demand. Interests of consumers are switched to meat. On the one hand, it is quite good. But we thus lose in our diet tiamin. It is fraught with problems for health ", — the deputy director of Institute of a feed(meal) of Russian Academy of Medical Science Alexander Baturin speaks. The special discontent of bakers causes ordinary opinion, that from bread get fat. " We are measured(going) to dispell this myth ", — A.Baturin declares. To make it representatives of branch are measured(going) at the first world forum on khlebopecheniyu which will pass(take place) in Moscow this month. This action — a subject of special pride pekarej. On a forum under the motto " Bread is health " will gather one thousand participants not only from the Europe and America, but even from the countries of Africa — to adopt experience. In fact for starving continent bread frequently is a unique accessible food stuffs.