For several weeks, many food businesses have been closed by the departmental population protection directorate due to hygiene problems. The result of a new government strategy for controlling food safety.
From 900 checks in 2023, their number must increase to 2,800 in 2024 and grow further in 2025. To increase the number of visits, the DDPP called on the firm Veritas which won the call for tenders in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Cabinet which will alone have to carry out 2,400 inspections in 2024. “What must be said is that among these checks, the vast majority go very well,” says the director of the D DPP du Rhône, Valérie Le Bourg, who adds: “There are no rules on the quality or not of the sign. Everyone goes through it.” The butcher-caterer Vessière and the very famous Chinese restaurant Engimono were closed at the beginning of April for hygiene reasons.