9kg of doughnuts among food destroyed in August
1070kg of foodstuffs were destroyed by the Health Inspectorate Service in August.
The service said its inspectors also issued 481 improvement notices to businesses and three products were recalled.
During the month, 25 outlets were visited by the Health Inspectorate early in the morning as part of a monitoring programme to ascertain hygienic delivery of food, particularly dairy products and bread.
The food that was destroyed included 1008kg of frozen lamb due to the presence of two durability dates; 38.2kg meat products due to risk of contamination;10kg of expired milk and cereals; 9kg doughnuts kept in inappropriate storage conditions; 5kg of breaded fish and pizza bases without any label.
In August, 667 complaints were lodged by the public.
97 complaints were related to food. The most common type of food complaints concerned hygiene of food premises (24 complaints), fitness of food (12 complaints), food poisoning allegations and storage of food with 7 complaints each.
Another 633 complaints were environmental health related. The most common type concerned presence of pests (181 complaints), infiltrations (94 complaints), accumulations of refuse (63 complaints), discharge of foul water (40 complaints), foul smells (39 complaints) and leakage/defective drains (28 complaints)
(Note: The number of complaints and the number of categories do not tally, since one complaint received may encompass one or more categories.)
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Joe Degiorgio
Sep 14th 2012, 08:35
9Kg of doughnuts destroyed. I bet Homer Simpson would be distraught by the news.
Doh!
Phil Zammit
Sep 14th 2012, 04:48
WOW unbelieveable!
5kg of breaded fish destroyed in Malta during the month of August!
Did the inspectorate raid my sister's freezer? She is a hoarder!
I bet the paperwork exceeded the weight of the fish........can't stop laughing......
R. Gauci
Sep 13th 2012, 20:22
Instead of throwing away the 1008 kg of frozen lamb wasn't it possible to check a sample of it and instead of throwing it all away (if it is found to be good )give some to some organisation to feed dogs??
Gustav Svensson
Sep 13th 2012, 19:19
Sameful. Companies should be named. It woul also be interesting to know how many % of the inspections that leads up to improvement notices. I can imagine that % is quite high...
M Darmanin
Sep 13th 2012, 18:48
It is in the nation's interest that these outlets are named. What if I had bought some of that lamb and date is not visible shouldn't I have the right to know it's not good or breaded fish and pizza bases without any label. If they are not good when they are seized consumers who previously bought them should be made aware. Isn't there and EU law or something about this???
J Borg
Sep 13th 2012, 18:38
can we get the names of the companies so that the general public is well informed
Deo Catania
Sep 13th 2012, 17:18
where is Franco Farrugia and all those who made such a panic about the tomato fight?
Neville Cutajar
Sep 13th 2012, 16:37
U xi nies qalaghu panic fuq 2000 Kg tadam. Normali hafna, li ikel jintrema ghax jihzien. Min jaf kemm xorbu ilma 1008 Kg ta haruf sur cremona ;-) ?
Christina Pace
Sep 13th 2012, 16:21
1008kg of lamb...not to mention this results in unnecessary mutilation of animals but also this is a crime against people too. So many hungy people could have been fed and in the present econimic climate this is a waste of resources. How irresponsible to let such a stock to become dubious due to dates.
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