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The food mafia in Albania, more dangerous than drug traffickers….
2026-02-15 11:55:44 / IDE
Today Albanians are victims of the food mafia. The food mafia earns more than the drug mafia. If drugs harm the lives of 5% of Albanians who use them, food is harming the lives of 100% of the people.
Albania used to be proud of its food products because of the quality, prices, but also the taste of many products such as fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, etc. But this belongs to the past and has remained a myth.
An Albanian businessman wanted to export meat to Germany and the EU, under the illusion that Europe does not have meat like Albania. After 6 months of efforts and analysis, the food authorities gave him a negative response, because the beef, pork, lamb and cow meat did not meet the standards to be sold in the European Union.
The same situation happened to a friend of mine from Lushnja, who tried several times to export tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and pumpkins to Austria. His trucks were blocked at the border because they did not meet European standards.
The problems in both cases were:
• dangerous bacteria (Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria)
• pesticides above permitted limits
• banned antibiotics or hormones
• heavy metals above permitted limits
• lack of hygiene
• uncontrolled temperature
• contamination
• quality of the food the animals consumed
• water quality
• packaging and storage
Albania is the only one in Europe that, after 1990, destroyed the seed institute, where for decades laboratories operated that dealt with the control, certification, testing and development of agricultural seeds to guarantee quality and compliance with national and EU standards.
In Albania today, you can neither eat nor drink with quality.
Perhaps someone could say that food in Albania has more flavor than in Europe, but this does not mean that a delicious food is healthy and meets food safety standards.
For example, Albania has the worst bread in Europe and is unmatched by any other European country in terms of bread quality. The grains from which most bread in Albania is produced come from Serbia, Russia, and Ukraine, often with lower quality standards.
What about pizzas, which are thought to be tastier in Albania than anywhere else — have you ever wondered what ingredients they are made with?
I'm not stopping at beverages, because it is universally known that coffee, wine, alcoholic beverages, and olive oil are the most counterfeited products in Albania.
You've heard it when the prime minister mocks immigrants by saying: "Come drink an espresso in Albania, have plenty of chestnut juice in Germany."
In fact, the prime minister does not know that in Germany, coffee control begins with pesticides above EU limits, mycotoxins, heavy metals; prohibited substances; continues with authenticity and quality control, to guarantee non-mixture with other materials; and ends with hygiene, processing, storage or transport control.
Does the prime minister know what kind of water is used to prepare espresso coffee in many Albanian bars?
Has he seen the rusty, dirty deposits and dead mice in the contaminated water in palaces and bars? What about the flies and cockroaches in the espresso machines?
Today the food mafia is killing our lives every day because:
1. It is poisoning the health of Albanians.
It is exposing citizens to serious diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Albanians are what they eat. A society that eats poorly is a society that gets sick and fills hospitals.
2. It is emptying the pockets of Albanians.
With the fall of the euro, it was expected that the prices of imported food would decrease, because they are bought with euros and sold with lek. But the opposite happened. Albanian supermarkets often have prices 2–3 times higher than supermarkets in Europe. The food mafia does not allow competition and the entry of European corporations such as Lidl, Penny and Aldi, blocking the free market and high prices.
3. The food mafia is hindering Albania's European integration.
Food safety is one of the most important chapters of the negotiations with the EU and one of the most difficult to fulfill.
Unfortunately, Albania still has serious problems in meeting food safety standards.
In Albania we do not eat well, but we eat very badly.
Do you know how many markets sell expired food and change the dates?
The food mafia is getting rich off the expired food that you feed your children.
Here I don't mean a few dozen guesthouses or brilliant Albanian entrepreneurs, but everyday life: the tables at home, the restaurants and bars in every corner of the building, and the bags of food that we fill every day in mini-markets.
Surprisingly, Albanian prisons are full of criminals, but unfortunately no one from the food mafia is in jail. They are stronger and more dangerous than the drug mafia.
In fact, they do not even allow the Albanian media to talk about this topic.
They have economic and political power.
The Albanian mafia operates on the principle:
“He who controls food, controls life.”
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