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08/19/2013
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SAO PAULO - The Sanitary State of São Paulo ordered the suspension of marketing and payment batch 2K04, due in January 2014, the product Tomato Ketchup, Heinz brand. The measure was adopted after tests have identified the rodent in the product that is unfit for consumption. The manufacturer has 30 days to collect it from the market.
The Protest - Consumers' Association had already identified the same problem in their own tests on lot 2C30. On occasion, the National Agency for Sanitary Surveillance (ANVISA) was notified of the problem by the entity. The agency then inspected the Coniexpress, importer and distributor of the product, which is produced in the Mexican Delimex, and rebuked another batch, the 2C31.
- Communicate to ANVISA and Health Surveillance in February about the tests in Heinz ketchup. They found more batch that we identify the problem, indicating that all of it was consumed. Therefore, other analyzed and found the same fault. It is a product unfit for consumption because the mouse is a vector of diseases - says coordenoradora institutional Protest, Maria Ines Dolci.
This time, the tests were conducted at the Instituto Adolfo Lutz of St. Andrew by the determination of the Sanitary São Paulo. Due to the result, the Protest said it will request the immediate inspection of the importer and distributor of the product Heinz sold in Brazil.
The assessment made at the beginning of the year by Protest, three were found in the rodent 100g sample batch 2C30, whose validity expired last June.
According to Maria Ines and the findings of the health surveillance agencies, the hairs found demonstrate that food is unfit for consumption.
To Protest, there are strong indications that there is serious hygiene problems, and the lack of minimal care for the manufacture or packaging of Heinz Ketchup.
As the product that had contamination problems is of Mexican origin, manufactured by Delimex the Protest reported the results of analyzes to the Consumers Association of Mexico.
Sought by GLOBE, Heinz Brazil informed through note that all products brought into the country are produced according to the sanitary standards of their home countries as well as international standards. The company added that the lots are not in circulation and it is analyzing the issues raised by the case.
Source: The Globe - Online
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