Santo Domingo.- The Dairy Technical Department of the National Council for the Regulation and Promotion of the Dairy Industry (Conaleche), the Milk Quality Unit of the General Directorate of Livestock (Digega), together with the Dairy Unit of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP ), continues the jobs dairy product labeling review, to verify that they comply with the NORDOM 53 standard, on the requirements of labels on preserved foods.
Label revision work has been carried out in the main supermarkets in the province of Santo Domingo and Santiago.
For two weeks, technicians from Conaleche, Digega and the MSP carried out a survey of dairy products, where they checked whether their labels comply with the list of ingredients, expiration dates, batches, address of the factories, among others.
Before these review works, there had been seizures of products that did not comply with the standard NORDOM 53, of the Dominican Institute for Quality (Indocal).
“Conaleche, Livestock and Public Health have removed imitation cheese from the market and we urge citizens to denounce places where there are similar products,” indicates a press release sent by the authorities.
Labeling is a challenge for the Dominican authorities, since there are products in the country that do not comply with what is required by Nordom 53, so the withmilk and the MSP have taken the initiative to supervise products in the dairy sector, in an attempt to ensure that consumers receive what they have really paid for.
As a promoter of the country’s sector, Conaleche is interested in dairy products marketed meet the quality requirements, so it maintains its support for supervision work in national trade.
The institutions recommended that consumers check the labels of the products they buy, in order to make sure that they are made from milk.
