ASAE 40 complaints about food prices received 40
Complaints are being s. ASAE recorded “some fluctuations” in prices in the two monitoring actions carried out at 71 gas stations
The Food Safety Authority (ASAE) received 4 complaints identified with the increase in the price of suppliers, assured in Portugal, assuring and monitored by the market.
“We will keep an eye on the market in everything”, being evaluated if ASAE returns, being also evaluated on the “ground” to monitor the evolution of the price of materials, Pedro Portugal Gaspar advanced, in an interview with Antena 1 and Jornal de Negócios.
It should be noted that these observations are “4 to be in the 0 space”, the ASAE official revealed that, from the two monitoring dates of the prices presented of eight days in 71 shares of eight in the country, if “some swings” in prices.
In terms of foodstuffs, the inspector general said that the ASAE has the impact of inflation on prices, considering that, although increases of 20 and 30% were considered, they may not be constituted.
“In this matter, margins of 20 or 30% do not seem to me that they will meet requirements considered to be practical, taking into account that in fact there is also a lot in the chain, several elements of price increase that can justify this same oscillation”, he said.
At the beginning of the month, ASAE announced that it had detected only one situation of alleged non-compliance in the application of the month’s reduction on Petroleum Products (ISP) at the gas stations it monitored.
This monitoring, at the level of fuel stations, had the objective of reducing the adjustment prices of the new national reduction measure of the ISP.
This action “had as a selection of the oscillation of prices for the consumer compared to previous periods, in particular, evaluating the impact of the final reduction to the final price of the ISP”, explained the authority.