The hunt for expired food products and parallel circuits intensifies. There High Authority for Food Products announced that he had conducted, in coordination with the police and the control services (national guard, municipal police, rapid intervention brigades, research teams and municipal agents), a large campaign in five governorates: Jendouba, Ben Arous, Mahdia, Bizerte and Ariana.
Assessment: more than 3.85 tonnes of damaged foodstuffs were seized, with particular attention paid to school restaurants and storage and distribution deposits.
In Jendouba, the inspections targeting establishments with a social vocation, in particular school canteens, have enabled the seizure of 213 kg of red and white meats And 24 kg of butterstored under deplorable conditions, with a change in color and foul -smelling odors.
Clandestine slaughterhouses and illegal deposits
In Ben Arous, the authorities discovered a underground workshop for sheep and caprine headswhere were seized 64 sheep heads, 256 legs, 30 kg of skins and as many frozen offs.
In the same governorate, a unauthorized storage deposit related to a distribution company was searched: 525 kg of processed products (salami, ham), as well as animal food stored in unsuitable thermal conditions were seized there. The immediate closure of the deposit has been proposed.
In Mahdia, three informal shops for the sale of savory and dried sardines, installed near a discharge and treatment plantwere dismantled. Authorities have seized it 2.5 tonnes of fishdevoid of any authorization or health certificate.
In Bizerte, a cheese manufacturing unit was subject to a control that has led to the entry of 56 kg of cheeses,, 50 kg of sugar stored in unsanitary containers,, 5 kg of sponge cake,, 28 liters of frozen juice in unsuitable bottles as well as Pieces of frozen beef under non -compliant conditions.
At Ariana, the inspectors checked 52 shopsdistributed 30 written warnings and erected 4 effective seizure minuteswith a total of 250 kg of meat and 113 kg of food and cheese makers withdrawn from the market.
