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Report on Food Safety
(2012-06-19)
Last updated: 2012-06-19 20:37 EET Print
Large supermarket chains have found fertile ground in post-communist Romania, grabbing much of the market share that small stores used to enjoy. The struggle for domination and profit is fierce, so each of those supermarkets tries to strengthen its position on the Romanian market. They continuously reinvent themselves in trying to attract as many customers as possible. A “World Wide Fund for Nature” report warns that Romanian retailers lack transparency and ignore local producers. The report wants to see how responsible those supermarkets are, and how concerned they are with the society that provides their profits, how wide their offer is in terms of organically certified products or products made by the local economy, as well as how much attention they pay to Romanian producers. According to WWFN, only a quarter of the produce and half the dairy sold in Romanian stores are Romanian-made. The report also shows that no top 10 retailer sells organic Romanian-made produce. Magor Csibi, general manager of WWFN Romania, believes that the big supermarket chains are more and more dominant, verging on monopoly. In this context, he says, we have to ask ourselves to what extent these companies practice corporate responsibility, beyond profit making, because the choices and options of those retailers depend on thousands of local producers, communities and industries. Local producers and small scale farmers protest against the fact that the supermarkets import products to their disadvantage. Romanian EuroMP Daciana Sarbu, who sits on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee in the European Parliament, pointed out that ecological and nutritional education were not enough in terms of corporate responsibility for supermarket chains in Romania. She said that legislation was needed to help local producers get their items onto the shelves. The same stores in Brussels have separate shelves for organic products that are domestically made, Daciana Sarbu said, who added that, at EU level, European exchanges were largely politically negotiated.

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