According to the health reporter of Fars News Agency, good or bad, many people in our society are in favor of all kinds of foreign brand foods. For years, bottles of Greek and Turkish olive oil, Swiss chocolate, German chewing gum and pastilles, American sauces, British biscuits and Emirati chips, and thousands of other foreign food items have been sold in supermarkets in Tehran and other major cities.
Smuggled counterfeit foodstuffs usually enter the country by sea and by boats; Unfortunately, there is no monitoring of the quality and authenticity of these products, and according to eyewitnesses, the way these foods are transported is completely non-standard and unsanitary.
On the other hand, according to some food market activists, many foreign brand foods in the domestic market are counterfeit or do not have a specific expiration date. Due to the near expiration date, these goods are purchased at very low prices and after entering the fake expiration date, they are offered at astronomical prices in the market.
According to Ali Fazeli, head of the Iranian Chamber of Guilds, most of these foods are out of date or have nothing left at the end of their legal life. The colorful Harji foods in the underground units are re-packaged as their original samples and the expiration date is written on them.
Import of foreign foods without the supervision of the Ministry of Health
Mohammad Hossein Azizi, Director General of Food and Beverage Products of the Food and Drug Administration, in an interview with a Fars News Agency health reporter, referring to the harms of intolerance to the country’s food industry, said: Bagging and cooperatives and other import procedures have become the starting point for smuggled goods into the country.
He added: “These goods are entering the country out of sight of the monitoring devices and their authenticity is not clear.” In the legal import of food, due to its direct relationship with public health, many factors of imported goods are evaluated and licenses are issued accordingly; However, with the import of foodstuffs, the possibility of monitoring is very low and the authenticity and health of the goods are not known.
The risk of buying smuggled food for people’s health
The director general of food and beverage products of the Food and Drug Administration, stating that the lack of supervision of this method of import will harm the country’s economy, said: It is now entering the country that this issue causes the supply capacities of domestically produced goods to be occupied and the country’s production statistics to decrease.
Azizi continued: “Unfortunately, some people believe that foreign goods are always better than domestically produced goods, and for this reason, they also accept the risk of buying smuggled goods.” The import of these products is common in the cosmetics industry due to its smaller volume than food; But the risk of buying smuggled food is very high for people’s health.
The need to monitor the import of tehlangi
Emphasizing the importance of protecting the livelihood of border residents, he said: “Absolute elimination of imports in the form of intolerance is not in the country’s interest at all; Because the livelihood of many border guards and sailors is provided in this way; But it is necessary to monitor these trade exchanges more.
Azizi added: “Unfortunately, this lack of supervision has caused the mafia to import Tahlongi to abuse this license and import as much as the entire Lunge and several trucks of goods.”
In the end, the director general of food and beverage products of the Food and Drug Administration, regarding the need to organize the regulation of import of Tehran, said: “Suggestions have been submitted to the governorates and governorates to monitor these goods with a special mechanism.” Of course, we have been very successful in some areas, especially Abadan, and we are trying to implement these monitoring in other areas as well.
The need to organize the import of Tehran
According to Fars, the lack of supervision of imported goods through smuggling and border cooperatives has caused some non-standard and non-standard products to enter the country, and this issue can be dangerous in the field of food and cosmetics, which is directly related to public health. Be.
According to Ministry of Health officials, manufacturing and importing companies are required to upload their product documentation to the Titek system for product analysis. Unfortunately, many of the foodstuffs on the market are imported into the country in a hurry, and due to the lack of a clear mechanism for importing goods in coastal areas, it is not possible to register them in the label and check their health and authenticity.
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