Out-of-date food and medications destroyed in Tete, Mozambique

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Out-of-date food and medications destroyed in Tete, Mozambique

1:38 CAT | 17 Aug 2016

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Out-of-date food and medicines estimated to be worth about 1.5 million meticais were destroyed on Friday in Tete by orders of the provincial delegation of the National Inspectorate of Economic Activities (INAE).

The products were being sold in shops in the city of Tete, while the drugs were on sale in various parallel markets, INAE provincial delegate Ofelio Jeremias said yesterday.

Jeremias said that some expired products were found during inspections while others were handed in by honest traders cooperating with the process.

“At this time of crisis, we have redoubled activities to prevent opportunists who do not care about public health putting their products on sale, even though they are out of date and represent a risk to people’s lives,” he said.

Compared with last year, the situation has improved significantly with both consumers and traders becoming more aware of the dangers of consuming out-of-date food products and medicines.

“We think this is very good, because they are showing greater responsibility towards public health. When they tell us about their products are out of date, we puts the products together and incinerate them,” Jeremias said.

“These economic agents are aware that they should not sell out-of-date products. This is very good, but there are some who still wait for inspection to find out,” he added.

Jeremias said that, this year, fines amounting to 500,000 meticais were levied for various irregularities found during the inspection of shops.

Source: AIM