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08/04/2015
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The State Procon, attached to the State Department of Consumer Protection and Defense, held, on Friday (31/07), Operation Forbidden Fruit, which targeted the network Hortifruti stores in the North Zone, South and West. Tax chose the late afternoon to perform the operation due to a complaint received. Consumers reported that businesses were previously selling ground beef in strategic time to escape surveillance. Six branches were inspected and three of them were fined.
In Hortifruti located on Uruguay Street, 213, in Tijuca, inspectors confirmed the complaint. There was 15kg and 780g of meat already ground in the staging area. A consumer who was there reported hearing the announcement of the store ground beef on sale at around 18 hours. According to the State Decree 6538/83, the meat may be ground at the time of purchase and consumer presence. Inspectors also found baked ham 9kg won this branch. The Avenue store Sept. 28, 185, in Vila Isabel, also committed the same offense and the tax collected 2kg and 100g of ground beef.
In the affiliate professor Souza Araújo Square, 390, in Barra da Tijuca, inspectors found no ground beef, but there were 3 kg and 600 g of overdue cold found in dairy chamber at buffalo mozzarella and mortadela.Não irregularities were found in Hortifruti located at Avenida das Américas, 6471, in Barra da Tijuca.; located in the Days of Rock Street, 45, and the Prado Junior Street, 281, both in Copacabana.
Source: Procon RJ
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