BBPOM: Nine Outlets In Bantul Selling Food Products Not Meeting Requirements

Officials from the Yogyakarta Food and Drug Administration (BBPOM) show food products that do not meet the regulations (Photo: Hery Sidik/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Yogyakarta Food and Drug Administration (BBPOM) noted that nine outlets of food distribution facilities in the form of distributors, modern markets, and shops in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region, were found selling food products that did not meet the terms or conditions. There are quite a few without a distribution permit, but the facilities in Bantul that do not meet the provisions are 15.79 percent. So the inspected 57 outlets, nine that do not meet the provisions, said Head of BBPOM Yogyakarta Dewi Prawitasari after food inspection at a shop in Bantul, quoted by Antara. Antara, Friday, December 24. According to him, nine outlets of food distribution facilities in Bantul with products of which do not meet the requirements were found when his agency together with the Bantul Health Service intensified food supervision from December 1 to 22, 2021. damaged, expired products, but most of them are sales of food additives which are there is no distribution permit from the POM Agency, the food additives must have a distribution permit," he said.

He said, apart from in Bantul Regency, intensification of food supervision, one of the post-market controls to ensure safe and quality food products in circulation ahead of Christmas and New Years, was also carried out in all regencies/cities throughout the DIY province. examined, there were 210 instruments, which did not meet the provisions of 35 facilities, so approximately 16.67 percent. The findings are the same, the product is damaged, expired, and without a distribution permit for food additives," he said. According to him, the food additives include, among others, coloring, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, flavoring and so on. All food products that do not meet the provisions are ordered not to be circulated and then destroyed. "Findings must be tampered with, destroyed by the owner of the goods, or returned to the supplier, the minutes of delivery to the supplier must be sent to us, so they must be returned if not returned, they will be destroyed themselves. , but it must be witnessed by officers from the POM," he said. He also said that food surveillance to protect public health during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in the context of Christmas and New Year's will continue to be carried out throughout DIY, until the end of the year.