Barrage of checks by the Nas carabinieri in bathing establishments and tourist villages. Objective: to verify compliance with the quality and safety levels of the services offered to users during the holiday period.
The inspections, throughout the country, involved 838 facilities and related food preparation and administration areas, detecting 257 irregular ones (equal to 31% of the targets inspected), contesting 415 criminal and administrative sanctions for over 290 thousand euros.
11 business owners reported, 20 closure measures due to serious structural and hygienic problems, for an economic value estimated at over 4 million euros.
Among these, 8 structures were found to be activated and functioning albeit without authorisation. In particular, the NAS of Reggio Calabria ascertained that a bathing establishment had been used illegally in the evening as a meeting place and entertainment, of the "open-air disco" type, finding the presence of about 500 customers inside, without the required public safety permits.
Furthermore, among the most widespread violations, hygienic deficiencies were found in the environments, such as changing rooms, toilets and meal preparation rooms, often remedied in confined spaces, lacking the minimum requirements to ensure optimal operating and maintenance conditions.
In the refreshment points inside the structures, over 2 tons of irregular foods were seized, intended for administration to customers, results of expired validity, without traceability and stored in bad condition.
Among the most relevant operations, those of Livorno and the province of Lucca, where the closure of three restaurants annexed to the respective bathing establishments was ordered, and Catania, where 90 liters of conditioned olive oil inside containers were seized without a label, in an evident state of rancidity, and 5 kg of illegally frozen poultry meat in a poor state of conservation.
(Unioneonline/ss)