The National Veterinary Sanitary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) announces that it has applied 121 contraventional sanctions following the controls carried out in October. The fines amount to a total of 558.100 lei. The economic operators who were sanctioned operate in areas such as the manufacture of milling products, bread and pastry products, the manufacture of other food products, soft and alcoholic drinks or storage units - food, seeds, vegetables - fruits.
Among the most common non-conformities, discovered by veterinary health and food safety inspectors, include:
• non-conformities regarding compliance with good hygiene and manufacturing practices – for example: non-hygienic maintenance of storage spaces, inadequate maintenance of technological production spaces, lack of water source and sanitary group, lack of changing room for employees, failure to ensure adequate stocks of substances intended for disinfection operations, failure to carry out DDD operations in accordance with the legislation specific to the food field; non-conformities regarding the maintenance and hygiene of the health protection equipment of the working personnel and/or related to the attestation of their health status;
• non-conformities regarding the monitoring and implementation of procedures based on HACCP principles;
• non-conformities related to ensuring the traceability and conformity of food products - e.g: LABELING, analysis bulletins with unsatisfactory results, sale of expired products;
• other types of non-conformities – for example: carrying out unregistered sanitary-veterinary and food safety activities, there are no records regarding the epidemiological triage and the customer register, the lack of sanitary-veterinary and food safety registration of means of transport.
In total, 11.407 controls were carried out in the agro-food industry units in the country. The role of these controls is to prevent and advise economic operators, aiming to keep the quality of food products within the maximum allowed limits. Contraventional sanctions are granted when the initially identified deficiencies have not been remedied within the established time frame or endanger the health of consumers.
