Ministry of Business and Trade Withdraws Corn Flakes Products from Markets

Doha, April 24 (QNA) - The Ministry of Business and Trade announced it has recommended the withdrawing of the Corn Flakes products now on sale in the markets out of its due keenness on the health condition and safety of the consumers and to ensure their rights for good services according to the set standards and specifications. The ministry said in a statement issued here on Wednesday that as a result of the analysis conducted on the aforesaid product in light of a complaint against it, it proved the existence of 'rancid' in some samples. Other analyses revealed that a number of other samples contain high degree of peroxide substance , a clear-cut evidence of the existence of rancid in these products , thus their lack of quality and validity to be left available for human consumption. Then the ministry has warned the sole agency of the aforesaid trade mark to hurry up withdrawing these products from the markets as per the provisions of article No./14/ of law No./8/ of the year 2008 on protection of the consumer and to declare this for the public on the spot. The ministry has earlier received information about rotten smell and rancid in the corn flakes products being on sale in the Qatari markets and immediately it had withdrawn a number of these samples of different dates and sent them to the central labs. of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) for analysis and notify the ministry of the result soon , the matter which the ministry revealed later and accordingly the ministry withdrew these products for being invalid and harmful to human consumption.(QNA)