Are supermarket products really lower quality in Eastern Europe?
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The topic blew up in early 2017 when supermarkets were accused of offering lower quality products in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe.
Since then, the Hungarian government has been adamant about attacking the multinational companies and called for a scientific investigation. The European Commissioned instructed such an investigation to examine whether there really was a difference in quality based on geographical location: the inquiry has now ended, and its official findings have been released.
As hvg.hu reported,
the investigation concluded that there were no real differences in quality based on geographical location.
Even though the EU has drafted legislation intended to punish companies that mislead customers, apparently there is no real need for that as the JRC (research centre of the EU commission) investigation did not find products in Eastern Europe to be of lower quality. Scientists were given 1400 different products; each of these products collected multiple times from 19 EU countries.
This blog will be of great use to my brother who is settled in the eastern part of Europe he often keeps on asking about the product quality of the that is available in the market I will share this article with him so that he can self monitor it.