Moldovan National Food Safety Agency bans sale of non-conforming consignment of butter

17:59 | 14.09.2022 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 14 September /MOLDPRES/ - The National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) has identified a non-conforming consignment of imported butter, which was returned.

Within the programme on monitoring and supervision in the field of safety and quality of animal origin food products for 2022, ANSA detected a batch of imported butter of 11 tons, which does not meet the sanitary and veterinary requirements. ‘’Following the carrying out of control and according to the results of laboratory tests, the presence of Escherichia coli and alien fats (triglycerides) was found out in the consignment of imported butter,’’ the Agency said.

ANSA instructed the banning of the product’s placement on market and the non-conforming batch was returned.

Photo: ANSA

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