The 2 Zol Begadol grocery store branches whose child meals merchandise had been discovered final week to comprise sedative medicine have been banned from promoting meals and beauty merchandise till they develop an in depth high quality assurance system, the Well being Ministry introduced on Thursday.
In line with the Well being Ministry, a complete of 5 tainted merchandise had been discovered in the course of the investigation, with three handed over by prospects and two discovered on retailer cabinets. All 5 confirmed indicators of tampering prior to buy.
In mild of this, the shops can be allowed to promote solely non-edible, non-cosmetic merchandise till they’ve established a system to forestall additional incidents.
The system, the Well being Ministry said, should embrace lowering uncontrolled entry to the merchandise, conducting common inspections of them, coaching staff to acknowledge broken merchandise, and instantly reporting any suspicion of meals injury to the Well being Ministry.
The police investigation continues to be ongoing, the Ministry said.
The Well being Ministry confirmed final Wednesday that laboratory assessments discovered clonazepam and lorazepam in jars of Prinok child fruit puree offered on the two branches of Zol Begadol, a reduction grocery store chain in Jerusalem.
The merchandise had been bought on the chain’s Mahaneh Yehuda department at 113 Jaffa Road, and at one other department at 214 Jaffa Road, each within the heart of the capital.
Clonazepam and lorazepam belong to the benzodiazepine household, a category of pharmaceuticals used as sedatives, anti-anxiety medicines, and different remedies.
Avihai Chiim, Efrat Forsher, and Jerusalem Publish Workers contributed to this report.
