2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
At the end of the Christmas and New Year inspections, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency announced that 1,535 kilograms of unfit foodstuffs had been destroyed during the inspections.
Around Christmas and New Year, Food Agency inspectors conducted a total of 2,254 emergency inspections. Among them 430 production enterprises, 1664 retail and catering establishments and 184 wholesale warehouses.
The biggest violations that the inspectors found were lack of appropriate equipment, sale of expired food, unregulated sale of food, improper labeling and irregular health records of the staff in the restaurants.
The Regional Directorate in the city of Burgas scrapped and destroyed a little over 1325 kilograms of expired milk powder. In Pazardzhik, inspectors confiscated about 100kg of expired food.
In Plovdiv, Sofia and Stara Zagora, a total of 16.5 kilograms of products of animal origin were sold, which were sold without the necessary documents for the origin of the raw material, 15 kilograms of expired meat and 13.6 kilograms of meat products without documents of origin.
The violators were issued 31 acts and 103 prescriptions.
Meanwhile, BFSA inspectors also inspect our winter resorts during the active winter season. Catering establishments, retail outlets and all-inclusive food establishments are inspected.
The inspectors will monitor the origin of the food, the correct storage and labeling, the observance of the expiration date and the safety in the preparation of the dishes.
The regional directorates of the BFSA have already met with business representatives to explain the novelties in the legislation and to pay attention to the most common violations.
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