2025 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 10:18
Inspectors from the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) carried out a record number of inspections throughout the country.
Since the beginning of the month, 9,594 current and 2,815 extraordinary inspections have been carried out at various sites.
Special attention is paid to wholesale warehouses, catering establishments, various food retail outlets, markets and food exchanges.
As a result of the impressive 12,409 inspections carried out in all districts of the country, the BFSA inspectors have drawn up 12 Acts for establishing an administrative violation and 64 prescriptions have been issued for elimination of the violations established during the inspection.
During the inspections, the BFSA inspectors found a total of 732 kilograms of products of animal origin of unknown origin.
A total of 78 kilograms of carcass of lamb without documents of origin and the corresponding identification mark were found by the inspectors from the Regional Directorate of the BFSA in Burgas.
More than half a ton (650 kg) of meat of unknown origin was found during the inspections of the inspectors from the Regional Directorate of the BFSA in Ruse. Open meat and meat products are banned and discarded. Their destruction in a slaughterhouse is forthcoming.
Since the beginning of the intensified inspections for the presence of goods without the necessary documents of origin and quality certificates, more than 2 tons of food products of animal and non-animal origin have been scrapped.
The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency announced that the intensified control over the trade outlets selling eggs, the repackaging workshops for eggs, the warehouses for wholesale trade as well as the various public catering establishments will continue to be strengthened, and its peak is yet to come.
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