Food & drink
If you're looking for a random fact to drop into your conversation next time you're down the pub, how about this one: last year, Latvian breweries produced more than 74 million liters of beer. To be precise, 74,546,098 liters, according to Eurostat data to mark International Beer Day on August 6 -- as if awareness of beer needed to be raised.
The Food and Veterinary Service (PVD), having received a complaint concerning the purchase of damaged chicken at the e-partika.lv Internet shop, carried out an inspection in which it removed a total of 1616,8 kilograms of food from circulation, the PVD said July 12.