CAIRO –

A wide interaction on social media platforms accompanied news circulated by local media about a factory for the production of cheese in Menoufia Governorate, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, that uses chemicals to paint walls in addition to spoiled salt in the manufacture of its product.

During a campaign launched by the supervisory authorities in the Tala Center in Menoufia Governorate, earlier this week, a factory containing 35 tons of spoiled cheese was raided.

The seizures varied between more than 40,000 pieces of cheese weighing about 14 tons, in addition to 370 cartons of cheese with a total of 5,500 kilograms unfit for human consumption, in addition to five sacks of putty that is placed on the walls before the painting process.

In addition, ten barrels of cheese were seized without data, in addition to two tons of expired salt.

In press statements, the head of the Tala Center, Hana Aqeela, confirmed the seizure of some rotten products and rotten goat milk stored in sacks and dumped in sewage water, indicating that women were found in possession of brushes to clean pieces of cheese from mold.

The local official explained that the factory was built on empty land and its employees tried to escape during the raid, while the Public Prosecution decided to put the factory under guard until the investigations into the incident were completed, and part of the seized items were withdrawn as samples to be sent to the laboratories of the Ministry of Health in Cairo.

Tons of Jameed and rotten cheese were seized (social networking sites)

not cheese

At the same time, the fate of the factory owner is shrouded in mystery;

The prosecutor's statement did not mention any details about his person or whether he was detained or not, in light of news circulating about the failure of security forces to arrest him during his escape from the factory.

According to what was confirmed by the correspondent of MBC Egypt, Ahmed Ajour, during the story program presented by the media close to the authority, Amr Adib, the seizures in the Menoufia factory are not cheese, but “Jamid Baladi”, a meal consisting of goat’s milk and table salt, knowing that this meal is not It is famous in Egypt as much as it is famous in Jordan and the Levant.

Ajour added that the factory resorts to using chemicals used to paint the walls in order to speed up the process of cohesion of the jameed and give it a good white color.

Jameed, which is famous in the Levantine cuisine, is made in the form of hard balls and is reused by rubbing the balls and placing them in water when you want to turn them into a liquid again. Its stores are concentrated in Egypt in areas where there are large numbers of Arabs, especially Syrians, such as the city of Sixth of October, west of Cairo.

Broadcaster Amr Adib commented, describing the owner of the factory as a "low liability", pointing out that the chemical used in the manufacture causes cancer, explaining that the factory continued to produce rotten for three years until its sales reached about 3 million pounds, equivalent to 200 thousand dollars.

health disaster

In turn, a member of the Health Committee in the House of Representatives from Menoufia Governorate, Hana Sorour, said that the seizure of a factory for the manufacture of rotten cheese portends a health disaster at all levels.

She added - in press statements - that citizens' consumption of such products contributes to the spread of serious diseases such as liver diseases and cancer, so we have great dissatisfaction with what happened, calling on the government to launch a massive campaign on shops and markets in Menoufia villages to ensure the safety of the products in them and their compliance with specifications.

In the spirit of holding everyone accountable, the parliamentarian called on citizens to report factories operating outside the official system.

Commercial fraud in food poses a grave danger to the health of Egyptians, and the recent incident of seizing a factory that produces cheese from wall paint is evidence of the extent to which the health of the citizen is underestimated. We need deterrent penalties.

#Ayman_Abu_Al-Ala

— Dr Ayman Aboul Ella (@dr_aboul) December 19, 2021

Death Claims

The head of the Parliamentary Committee of the Reform and Development Party in the House of Representatives, Ayman Abul-Ela, commented on the fraudulent cheese incident, saying - via Twitter - that commercial fraud in food poses a grave danger to the health of Egyptians.

He considered the latest incident evidence of the extent to which the health of the citizen is underestimated, stressing the need for deterrent penalties.

Meanwhile, the pioneers of social media platforms interacted with the news circulating about the factory that produces adulterated cheese, and a number of them demanded that the factory owners be executed for exposing the lives of millions to serious diseases and possibly death.

There is no power or strength except


by Allah, whoever deceives us is not one of us. He is


not afraid of people. Something will happen to her

— mohammad (@mohammadgm13) December 19, 2021

It should be executed directly


as a person who was diagnosed with cancer due to lack of conscience.

— Nadra El Barky (@nadrabarky) December 19, 2021

And God has justified. Our Lord is the execution of the owner of the factory, and everyone knows how to mix paste in people’s food

And the execution is carried out in the same factory, and it is imagined that through it, there are


people who are a danger even to their children... The death of conscience is a calamity.

— Tweeter in love with my country (@3ashe2MASR) December 19, 2021

The penalty for commercial fraud in the Egyptian Law - Article No. 48 of 1941 and amended by Law No. 281 of 1994 - is imprisonment for a period of no less than one year and a fine of no less than five thousand pounds and not more than twenty thousand pounds, or the equivalent of the value of the commodity subject of the crime, whichever is greater or one of these two. The two penalties.

While Article 70 of the Consumer Protection Law punishes the supplier of the product with imprisonment and a fine of no less than 100,000 pounds and not more than two million pounds, or either of these two penalties, if the circulation of the product endangers the life of the consumer.

In the event that a person suffers a permanent disability or a chronic disease as a result of using the product, the penalty shall be imprisonment and a fine of no less than 100,000 pounds and not more than one million pounds.

While others saw that publishing such news harms the reputation of the Egyptian industry inside and outside the country.

You caught him and imprisoned him.


What is the need to announce


and tarnish Egypt’s reputation with one corrupt and not one


cheating

one that you do?

This harms all industries.


Fear God. You have


seen a country in the world


announcing supply issues or fraud, or


just prosecute them and imprison them or execute


them and

save us

from them,


but to become modern All news agencies,


this is bad for Egypt

— hossam mohamed (@hossammohamed91) December 20, 2021