2024-03-21 17:22:00
the essential While the discontent of the agricultural sector does not weaken in the department, the prefect of Gers accompanied a control operation at a distributor, this Thursday, March 21. He announces a “strengthening of controls on the origin of food products in 2024”.
This Thursday, March 21, the prefect of Gers, accompanied by agents from the CCRF service (competition, consumption and fraud repression) of the DDETSPP (departmental directorate of employment, labor, solidarity and protection populations), went to a Gers supermarket “in order to check the veracity of the information provided to consumers on food products”.
The frequency of checks will be increased in 2024 in the department, state services announce. Prefecture of Gers
“The control focused on the origin of fruits and vegetables, meats and the traceability of foodstuffs” and aimed “to verify the absence of francization (deceptive practice consisting of announcing a French origin on an imported product)”, specifies the Gers prefecture in a press release received by our editorial staff.
15 warnings and 4 minutes in 2023
In 2023, 76 inspections were carried out at distributors, specify the prefecture services, “mainly targeting fruits and vegetables, meats, fishing products and organic products”. These controls gave rise to “15 warnings, a correction order and 4 reports”: “The non-conformities concerned the origin, quality signs, calibers but also the Frenchification of products.”
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The frequency will be increased in 2024, announces the prefect: “There are more than 110 checks planned in 2024 on the quality and integrity of fruits and vegetables, meats (including foie gras), wines, and quality signs. as well as on organic mentions.”
The DDETSPP will also invest “in the search for fraud in the supply of products served in collective catering” concludes the press release.
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