S ?O PAULO – Brazilian health and safety officials raided the England and Italy team hotels for next month’s World Cup and confiscated fish, butter, ham and other food past their sell-by dates.
More than 110 pounds of food deemed unfit for consumption was taken from the Portobello Hotel where Italy will stay and another 5 pounds was removed from England’s Hotel Royal Tulip. Both hotels are in Rio de Janeiro.
As part of a wider campaign by the ‘State Secretariat for the Defense and Protection of Consumers’, officials visited 13 restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries, shops and hotels, and notified eight of them for irregularities.
“??In total, [481 pounds] of food unfit for consumption was discarded,”? the Secretariat said in a statement.
One of the biggest raids came on Monday at Italy’s hotel in Mangaratiba, just outside the city of Rio. Officials there discovered more than 55 pounds of seafood and margarine past the sell by date, and another 53 pounds of meat, sauces, cheese and sugar that had no visible sell-by date.
They also removed salmon, parma ham and butter after visiting England’s hotel.
Both hotels were also warned for not providing condoms to guests, as is required under Brazilian law.
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Thirty-two teams will take part in the World Cup next month, the first to be held in Brazil since 1950. Many of them will bring their own food and their own chefs.
Reuters