Indonesia's Food and Drug Authority (BPOM) announced on April 25, 2022 that BPOM held a press conference on strengthening food safety supervision ahead of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr 2022 in the afternoon.  At the meeting, the principle of BPOM notified the food safety supervision results and punishment measures during the strengthened supervision.  The number of non-conforming products detected in enhanced supervision activities before Eid al-Fitr decreased by 8.63% compared with 2021.  From March 28, 2022 to May 6, 2022, a total of 73 working groups at local sub-levels jointly carried out regulatory inspections, focusing on the compliance of pre-packaged processed food.  The inspection results are as follows :
 

(1) Among the 1,899 key places inspected, 601 (31.65%) were selling spoiled, expired or illegal food, including 576 retail places, 2 e-commerce warehouses and 1 importer;  
 

(2) The inspection involved 2,594 categories of unqualified products, a total of 41,709 items, with an estimated total value of 470 million Rupiah (about 32,100 USD), among which the unqualified food additives involved ready-to-use seasoning, puffed snacks, flavoured drinks and coffee powder drinks;  expired food involved biscuits, baking products, coffee powder drinks, ready-to-use seasoning;  The spoiled products involved sweetened condensed milk, sauces, canned fish, UHT or sterile milk and biscuits;  
 

(3) In the inspection of Eid meal/snack (Takjil), up to 109 out of 7,200 samples contained banned ingredients, including formaldehyde (0.72%), rhodamine B (0.45%) and borax (0.34%). Abuse of methyl yellow was not detected.  
 

BPOM tracks and manages the results of food safety monitoring, takes guidance, warning, recall, destruction and other measures to the commercial participants in the places involved, detains illegal food without circulation codes, and guides and assists the commercial participants in food registration.