Inspectors: 56 percent of ice cream samples substandard

Inspectors from the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (CAFIA) have found an unusually high amount of substandard ice creams and ice for use in drinks this year, the Czech News Agency reports. The results of the inspection were the worst in six years, with 56 percent of ice cream and 75 percent of ice for use in drinks samples not passing the threshold.

The presence of enterobacteriaceae bacteria was identified in many of the substandard ice cream samples. Most of the substandard samples belonged to the vanilla flavour variety. CAFIA stated that the main reason behind the samples being substandard was poor production hygiene, lacking sanitation and failure to uphold manufacturing standards.

However, CAFIA highlighted that the results should not be considered as descriptive of the situation on the market, because inspectors focused specifically on problematic business.