Consumer Protection: Seizing a ton and a quarter of rotten sardines in Egypt before they are put on the market in Sham El-Nessim

Published 2023년 4월 14일

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The Consumer Protection Agency in Egypt is conducting extensive campaigns leading up to the holiday of Sham Al-Nessim to ensure the safety of salted fish products available in markets and fish shops. In collaboration with health, supply, food safety, and local government directorates, the agency is monitoring the sale of various types of fish and has already seized over a ton of sardines found to be unfit for human use. The merchants responsible will be referred to the Public Prosecution under the Consumer Protection Law. The agency will continue its campaigns throughout the day next week, focusing on monitoring commodity prices and quality, particularly of chocolate, meat, poultry, and fish. This initiative is in line with the Prime Minister's directives to clearly announce commodity prices and penalize outlets that do not comply, with the ultimate goal of maintaining market balance and providing fair prices for consumers.
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Responsible sources within the Consumer Protection Agency confirmed that all branches of the agency are waging intensive campaigns against markets and fish shops. Coinciding with the advent of "Sham Al-Nessim" to ensure the suitability of salted fish products offered to citizens. The sources added, in exclusive statements to Al-Mal, that the head of the agency issued directives that all branches of the agency should be present in cooperation with the directorates of health, supply, food safety, and local government to monitor the sale of fish, such as: “fesikh, herring, saltiness, sardines” and other types of fish that Copts accept in Egypt. Sham El-Nessim holidays. And she indicated that during the campaigns, a ton and a quarter of sardines were seized inside a number of shops designated for selling fish, fesikh and herring, which are unfit for human use and show signs of a change in their properties and are sold to citizens as being usable, pointing out that the seized ...
Source: Almalnews

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