The National Food Agency of Georgia inspects fish factories – control carried out in up to 200 facilities. Notably, critical inconsistencies have been revealed in the relevant fish industries.
The violations of sanitary and hygiene standards, facts of use of paint of uncertain origin – this is a list of violations that inspectors at the National Food Agency have found.
Authorities of the agency, within the framework of state control, inspected relevant fish fishing factories, fish and fish factories, flood farms, and fish realization facilities throughout the country. As of today, state control has been carried out in up to 200 facilities.
In Tbilisi, two fish-related factories were found to have critical irregularities, namely, improper washing-disinfection-disinfectant-deratization; a damaged ceiling of a fish-related camera, as well as violation of the law of providing food information to customers, due to which, business operators were fined and stopped the business process until the critical irregularities are eliminated.
The rule of providing food information to consumers, along with other listings, provides for labeling food coloring and other additives. The business operator is also obliged to provide a relevant certificate.
In case all the above-mentioned information is not included on the label, the business operator is forbidden to make such food and to demand its removal from the market.
The use of food coloring is permitted by law and regulated by the technical regulations on food supplements; however, the food label must specify its full name and origin.
As a result of state control conducted in 200 facilities across the country, violations of the rule of providing food information to consumers were detected in 9 business operators. In other cases, the fish and fish companies only use legally prescribed paints, and the label contains information about the food additives used.
