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Learn how insects and rodent are tolerated by the foods you consume

07/29/2016

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At home housewife Elaine Medeiros, 41, pasta is the dish at least once a week

The announcement of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), a few days ago that a lot of boxes of tomato extract contained Elephant "rodent by fragments" left the frightened consumers. The surprise was not only because they have been detected traces of contamination from mouse, rat or mouse, but there is a limit of tolerance, accepted by the supervisory body, a minimum amount of the animals in food and drink sold in the country.

In March this year, came into force in Brazil a resolution of the regulatory agency, which determines the extent to which the presence of foreign substances in certain products is allowed. According to Anvisa, is considered a strange item any material that is not part of the food composition and that may be associated with inadequate conditions of production, handling, storage or distribution.

In sauces, fruit pulp and tomato ketchup and extracts, for example, the consumer may ingest unknowingly insect bits and by rodents. In this case, the limit is up to ten insect or a rodent fragments by fragment per hundred grams.

- I abhor the mouse, and imagine that I could be eating for one ... It is difficult to make pasta without tomato sauce ... At home, we make mass at least once a week - said the housewife Elaine Medeiros, of 41 years.

For the taxi driver Pedro Paulo Viana, 47, Anvisa and industry should be much stricter with the production of beverages and food.

disease risk exists

Although the standard of tolerance for being "among the strictest in the world, if we compare with countries that are a reference in the food regulation," says Anvisa to Sidnei Ferreira, president of the Regional Council of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro (CREMERJ ), health legislation should not tolerate any trace of insects or rodents by:

- Of course, any kind of contamination should happen, mainly because the animals. It is unacceptable. You can not have tolerance with the lack of hygiene in handling and manufacturing of foods.

The doctor warns that these foreign substances, in certain cases, may even cause disease in some people.

- Depending on the type of contamination, a number of diseases can be triggered, from the simplest to the most complex. In the case of animals, it may be a simple diarrhea to hepatitis - the doctor explained.

suspension of sales is nothing new

The most recent case of suspension of the sale of a product by the presence of foreign bodies above the allowed limit was the elephant tomato paste, the Knorr brand. A test found fragments of the rodent above the tolerance limit. The L6 batch of product manufactured by Cargill Agrícola company, is valid until 21 May 2015. The ban is for 90 days. In such cases, the manufacturer has the right to request the opening of the counter-evidence analysis for the conclusion of the case.

In August 2014, Anvisa ordered the immediate withdrawal of all shops and a lot of marketing suspension 2K04, maturing in January 2014, from Tomato Ketchup, Heinz brand. The measure was adopted after tests identify the rodent in the above product permitted. Six months earlier, Protest had detected the problem and warned to Anvisa. The agency, however, said he could not stop the sales because the analysis had not been made by an official laboratory. New tests at the Institute Adolfo Lutz confirmed the problem.

Also last year, in May, the state Department Rio Health suspended the sale and consumption of lots of natural tomato pulp Predilecta brand, in which were found by animals. The products withdrawn from supermarkets were the natural tomato pulp (lot 390M23SA) and braised tomato sauce (L134S / RT lot).

In 2012, before the new resolution, Protest also notified Anvisa about the presence of the rat in three samples of raisins and nuts-and-stop without shells, for sale in Sao Paulo.

 

Source: Extra

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