Technicians and inspectors from the National Service for Agricultural Health and Food Safety (Senasag), the operational arm of the MDRyT, spared no effort or resources in carrying out controls on the occasion of the festivities of San Juan with a deployment of 118 operations to all companies and processors of sausages managing to seize a large amount of products in poor conditionpunishing offenders with fines worth 94,000 bolivianos and issuing notifications to dozens of companies for non-compliance with the regulations.
The information was provided by the executive general director of that entity, Javier Suárez, who explained that given the great demand for sausages that exists at this time throughout the country, Senasag has carried out 118 incursions and operations not only to the processors or importers but also to the different markets in coordination with the Municipalities, managing to seize 5,487 kilos of products that were not fit for human consumption and has also proceeded to apply fines and sanctions for nearly of 100 thousand Bolivians.
“Generally, the observations that have been detected by our inspectors, at the time of the operations, have been of products that did not have the Sanitary Registry, the same ones that have been seized immediately and on other occasions products that were not suitable, because they were in the process of decomposition, it was also possible to seize products that had been smuggled in and that were intended to be marketed in the national territory,” stressed the health authority.
Finally, Suárez announced that these operations will continue throughout the country through the 110 offices that Senasag has. just like what was done during Easter with fish, where there were serious protests, but that did not stop the controls and inspections on festive dates, when the population flocks to the markets to be able to acquire certain products that we have to guarantee are fit for human consumption.
