Four tons of meat unfit for consumption in the Viseu region – Observer

The Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE) today seized approximately four tons of unsafe meat from an industrial unit in the Tarouca region of Viseu district

Sausages and intestines, valued at around ten thousand euros, were manufactured as a result of an inspection in an "industry producing meat products and cold rooms," says ASAE, in a note. sent today to the agency

As a result of the action, the company was also "determined to suspend a portion of the activity", namely "four freezing rooms, due to a serious violation of the general and specific requirements of hygiene, "adds the same note.

As part of the same inspection, criminal proceedings were also initiated for the marketing of damaged abnormal products and

Among the reported anomalies, ASAE refers to "an excessive concentration of ice in the Refrigeration equipment due to the malfunction of the freezing chamber "and to" the presence of the inspectors also detected "frozen meat with signs of burning, dehydration and change in color and color Accumulation of ice crystals, "says ASAE, indicating that the action was developed by the Regional Unit. (Mirandela Unit) of this police organization

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