A bakery closed in Sant'Elia, Cagliari, for serious violations of health and hygiene regulations, premises and utensils seized in two pastry shops in Pula and Sanluri and irregularities contested, overall, in 25 businesses out of 166 inspected.

This is the result of the checks carried out throughout southern Sardinia by the Carabinieri of the Anti-Adulteration and Health Unit of Cagliari. The primary objective was to verify the conditions of commercial activities involved in the production and sale of typical holiday foods, but also of accommodation facilities intended to host students on trips.

Following the violations found, a total of 42 administrative sanctions were imposed, with 22 people being reported to the competent administrative and health authorities.

In a pastry shop in Pula, the Carabinieri proceeded with the administrative seizure of tools and premises, charging the owner, a 47-year-old man resident in Cagliari, with failure to prepare the HACCP hygiene self-control plan, required by law to protect public health.

Similar critical issues were also detected in Sanluri, in a well-known café-pastry shop-bakery. In this case, the owner, a 67-year-old resident in the area, was fined not only for the lack of an adequate HACCP plan but also for the lack of training of the staff in charge of food handling and for the omission of regular microbiological analyses on products intended for sale.

The situation is particularly serious in the Sant'Elia bakery, managed by a thirty-seven-year-old, where inspections led to the immediate suspension of the bakery activity. In this case, the structural deficiencies and the serious shortcomings found in the hygienic conditions of the premises, according to the NAS, represented a serious risk to food safety, making it necessary to stop the activity as a precaution.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)