Santa Bremor light-salted salmon. (Photo: Santa Bremor)
BELARUSWednesday, February 18, 2015, 23:50 (GMT + 9)
Santa Bremor has intensified its controls over salmon processing after the detection ofListeria monocytogenes bacteria in some of the company's products.
The Russian food quality watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor had found the bacteria, which can cause food poisoning, in light-salted salmon prepared by the Brest-based enterprise.
The company has not yet received an official protocol of the tests conducted by the watchdog indicating where and how the product samples were taken and in what batch of merchandise the bacteria have been detected.
Santa Bremor is the first company in the Republic of Belarus to be granted a Conformance Certificate of the quality and safety control system on the base of the НАССР-principles (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points).
Notwithstanding, it has already started to apply corrective measures in the company's salmon processing and control actions over supplies of merchandise.
Sources from The Belarusian-German joint venture stressed, “Our lab has all the necessary certificates for carrying out this work and has been certified by the Belarusian state accreditation center,” BelTA reported.
Santa Bremor is a limited liability company that was registered in the free economic zone Brest in March 1998. The company is a daughter enterprise of the joint venture Santa Impex Brest.
The business focuses on processing fish and sea foods, wholesale and retail trade. It has a range of over 500 kinds of products and supplies that it offers to the CIS states, Baltic States, to the European market and the US, in addition to Israel, Lebanon, Georgia, and New Zealand.