Turkey: Food inspections by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry continues in Ankara

Published 2021년 10월 28일

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Turkey is conducting a food inspection campaign, with Deputy Minister Ayşe Ayşin Işıkgece leading the effort in Ankara. The campaign aims to inspect 720,000 food enterprises across the country, with a team of 7,300 inspectors. During an inspection at a shopping mall in Ankara, a pastry business was fined 6,77 liras for health code violations, including storing harmful cooking products improperly and not storing products at the required cold chain temperature. Businesses found non-compliant have a week to correct deficiencies, and fines and penalties can range from 50,000 lira to 2,000,000 lira, as well as imprisonment and bans from the profession. Consumers are also encouraged to report violations anonymously.

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Within the scope of the food inspection campaign initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the inspection of food enterprises in the capital continues with the participation of Deputy Minister Ayşe Ayşin Işıkgece. 7,300 food inspection personnel are on duty for the inspection of 720 thousand enterprises in the food inspection campaign implemented by the Ministry throughout Turkey. In this context, all restaurants, cafes and patisseries on the food floor of a shopping mall in Ankara were inspected with the participation of Işıkgece, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. Işıkgece, who supervised the workplaces with the team accompanying him, chatted with the business owner and employees. Işıkgece conducted inspections on salads, soups, oil, chicken, doner kebabs, cakes and similar products, measuring oil temperatures, using worn and damaged Teflon pans, and keeping the products in the cold chain. A company operating in pastry business was sentenced to an ...

Source: Sondakika