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The Minister of Health Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare Mara Luisa Carcedo highlighted in her visit to the Center for Research and Quality Control CICC under the General Directorate of Consumption. The fundamental role of these laboratories in the prevention of fraud in food and industrial products commonly used by citizens the verification of product safety and the verification of mandatory information that goods must have available to consumers.Minister Carcedo explained that the Center for Research and Quality Control analyzes daily samples sent from various organizations such as the Inspection Services of the Autonomous Communities the Municipal Consumer Information Offices OMIC of the municipalities the Arbitration Boards the courts and other organisms of the Administration like the Official Service of Inspection Surveillance and Regulation of the Exports SOIVRE. The Center plays a fundamental role of control and collaboration with the competent authorities for market surveillance with the objective that the necessary measures can be taken.Specifically in the year 2019 3290 samples were analyzed 1977 of industrial products and 1313 of food. Regardless of the type of product labeling and presentation irregularities have been the most frequent. These samples come mostly from national regional or official controls campaigns through which possible breaches of labeling quality safety etc. have been detected.Thus the 20 analytical units that make up the aforementioned CICC are responsible for verifying the labeling verifying that the composition responds to what the label describes instructions for use warnings and risks to the safety of consumers and users effective content etc. . Also they verify the suitability that the product has to its use and the detection of adulterations or frauds. In addition it has been studied whether they respond to current legislation. In 2019 49.2 of the food products analyzed have complied with the regulations that regulate them while 39.5 do not. For its part 49.1 of industrial products comply with the applicable standards and 47.9 have some type of default.Of all the products analyzed in 2019 a total of 43425 determinations or analyzes have been carried out. The result is that the greatest number of non-compliances is related to the information offered to consumers through labeling which represents 10.1 of the anomalies. The aspects related to safety have accounted for 8.4 of the determinations carried out on the products analyzed and 3.6 are linked to breaches of the aspects linked to quality factors.
