The National Food Agency of Georgia on Tuesday said it had issued 82 fines to businesses for “critical inconsistency” with safety, sanitary and other regulations after 3,103 inspections of food facilities, products and slaughterhouses across the country between April and June.
The Agency said its professionals had identified the violations during inspections of precooked, dairy, fish and meat products, meat product enterprises, kindergarten and school caterings, food retail and wholesale as well as public catering facilities, animal and poultry slaughterhouses and other venues.
The body said sanitary and hygienic norms, conditions of food preparation, storage and sale, deadlines, labelling, traceability and proper functioning of the hazard analysis and critical control points were being inspected during the monitoring of the venues.
It also added most of the violations involved sale of meat without health indications, improper washing and disinfection, violation of sanitary and hygienic norms, temperature regime and food storage conditions, condensate in refrigerators.
The Agency also noted the violations detected in the second quarter constituted 2.64 percent of the inspections carried out by the body.
