{"id":22442,"date":"2023-03-24T14:45:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2023-03-24T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:45:32","slug":"sfda-seizes-ramadan-food-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/24\/sfda-seizes-ramadan-food-items\/","title":{"rendered":"SFDA seizes 11 tonnes of Ramadan food products due to safety violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfda.gov.sa\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SFDA<\/a>) has seized more than 11 tonnes of Ramadan food products, some from unknown origin, due to poor storage and tampered nutrition labels, according to local media reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So far, 69 establishments have been penalised during monitoring tours across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The SFDA\u2019s monitoring tours, which covered all regions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/10\/redseer-consulting-retail-spending\/\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, were conducted to ensure the safety of food products consumed during Ramadan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SFDA reports that tours were conducted to places such as retail and wholesale stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Other violations included the absence of expiry dates on product labels, poor handling of food products and lack of proper cover for meat items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The SFDA has urged consumers to report any violations they discover by calling the unified number 19999 or through the Tameni app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The SFDA\u2019s efforts aim to ensure that the food products consumed during Ramadan are safe and of high quality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi Food and Drug Authority has seized more than 11 tonnes of Ramadan food items due to poor storage conditions and tampered nutrition labels, local media reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1323,1],"tags":[3946,2683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22444,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions\/22444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}