Caracas, 25 feb ( EFE).- the Minister Venezuelan of food Carlos Osorio, today denied the discovery of 100 tons of sausages defeated in the State network of food marketing and challenged to prove his existence.
“I wish really that managed me the 100,000 kilos so if I have to cover and make me liable for any penalty or any criminal or administrative action, I assume her”, stated Osorio to journalists during a tour of a producer and distributor of Venezuelan food (PDVAL) Centre in Caracas.
Osorio stepped well of a complaint lodged by the opposition MEP Neidy Rosal, who claimed to have proven the existence of were 100.8 tons of sausages vanquished in a collection Center (Mercal) food markets in the Guacara municipality, State of Carabobo (Northwest) in.
“These deposits from Mercal were approximately about 100,800 kilos of mortadella and overdue sausages, with dates of expiration of December 2011 and January this year”, he told Efe the Member.
The Minister complained that opposition spokesmen “are going to some facilities” official network “looking for that if a tomato was bad” and “everything that may have suffered perhaps a certain deterioration”.
“Also want that the opposition will assume and are responsible in every tabloid information that want to get different media of communication”, said Osorio, and warned that these allegations bring “distress to the people”.
Rosal said that it would submit videos and photos that prove their accusations to the Venezuelan Attorney to investigate the case thoroughly.
He referred also to the case of thousands of tons of decomposed food that they were found in May 2010 in containers of one of the main ports of the country and led to jail some of the directors of PDVAL, state that imported.
Putrefactos food scandal occurred when they scarce commodities such as milk, cheese, red meat and coffee in Venezuela.
In August of last year, Rosal denounced to the Prosecutor’s Office secret burning of nearly 160,000 tons of rotting food of PDVAL in Carabobo.
Said at the time that it was “109 million kilograms of milk and 50 million litres of oil” which allegedly belonged to lots of 2010 and 2011. EFE
