Rospotrebnadzor: No reasons to close Penza McDonald’s
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Penza, 22 August 2014. PenzaNews. The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being [Rospotrebnadzor] in the Penza region found no reasons to close the McDonald’s fast food restaurants in Penza, but found a number of violations, said Mikhail Perekusikhin, acting head of regional Rospotrebnadzor department, on Friday, August 22.
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According to him, the inspection revealed the absence of reliable information for consumers on the services provided which would ensure the correctness of their choice.
“Beyond that, there is evidence of sales take-out / pick-up, packed in consumer packaging with no information for the consumer,” the agency interlocutor said.
Mikhail Perekusikhin added that Rospotrebnadzor found out that McDonald’s broke its food production control routines, and found coliform bacteria in food samples.
“The portion weight of the finished product does not meet the requirements of normative-technical documentation. There is consumer fraud concerning the energy value of the product,” the head of the department noted.
He said that the department filed 10 protocols and rejected three batches of products with a total weight of 38 kg.
“We will issue the requirements to McDonald’s administration, and then re-inspect the enterprises,” Mikhail Perekusikhin said.
He stressed that there are currently no reasons to cease the activity of the restaurants in Penza.
“We found no reasons to close the restaurants as their activity does not threaten the lives and health of consumers,” the agency interlocutor informed.
On Wednesday, August 20, the Moscow department of Rospotrebnadzor announced about numerous violations of sanitary legislation in the metropolitan restaurants McDonald's. Three of them were closed, while another two restaurants are undergoing inspections without suspending their activities.
The Moscow colleagues’ initiative was supported by regional departments of Rospotrebnadzor that declared their readiness to check the local McDonald’s restaurants.
