The Food Safety Unit of the Health Authority has seized 2,045 kilos of expired meat products, in the context of the inspections carried out prior to National Holidays. This was reported by Ximena Salinas, Seremi de Salud, who detailed that 9 investigations have been initiated after sanitary deficiencies were detected in cured meat factories and retail establishments.
“The inspections will continue throughout the Nublan territory with the objective of monitoring the origin and quality of the meat products marketed during these dates, whose consumption increases considerably,” the authority said, adding that the preventive work seeks to ensure that the inhabitants of the region, and tourists, have access to safe products, preventing outbreaks of food-borne diseases, and the sale and distribution of cured meats made with expired raw materials or without designation of origin.
The inspections are extended to butcher shops, supermarkets, cured meat factories and empanada factories, verifying compliance with good manufacturing and hygiene practices in establishments, and compliance with DS 977 Food Regulations of the Ministry of Health (Minsal). In addition, during the National Holidays, temporary establishments installed at events, inns and ramadas in the 21 communes will be inspected.
