Comportamiento de alimentos y cosméticos durante su comercialización en dos municipios de Ciudad de La Habana

Resolutions about sanitary or phytosanitary rules as well as those relatives to technical obstacles to commerce adopted in Codex Alimentarius standards, give importance to labelling of foods. A study was made with 1,182 food products (beverages, confitures, fruit and vegetable conserves, meat products, fish products, Italian pastes, oil and fats, milk products, cereals and grains) in order to check the accordance of their visible quality properties with the label information. The study was made in five stores of Old Havana and Central Havana, Municipalites of Havana City with a high population density and big number of consumers. The study also included 500 cosmetics classifield in ten groups: parfums, creams, decorative cosmetics, dental products, dyes, hair products, cleaning products, soaps and detergents, shampoos and hair conditoners, hygiene products and powders. An inspection was made which included checking of labellings, Sanitary Register approval, expiration date and state of conservation of the products in the stores. It was found that 94.6% of food products and 89.7% of cosmetics had Sanitary Register certificates; 0.2% of packings were altered; 92.6% of food samples and 94.2% of cosmetics had labelling according to Codex standards and 0.1% of products were selling after their expiration dates.