After arrest, owner of clandestine cheese factory says he will regularize production in Acre
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See images of the Civil Police and Health Surveillance at a clandestine cheese factory After being arrested in a clandestine cheese factory closed by the police and Health Surveillance, rural producer Daniel Paixão, 32, said he will seek the bodies to regularize production.
See images of the Civil Police and Health Surveillance at a clandestine cheese factory
After being arrested in a clandestine cheese factory closed by the police and Health Surveillance, rural producer Daniel Paixão, 32, said he will seek the bodies to regularize production. He was released during a custody hearing on Thursday (4).
The factory operated without sanitary authorization and minimum hygiene conditions, creating a health risk for consumers in the municipality. During the inspection, the teams threw away several liters of milk used in production. (See video above)
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The producer stated that he will seek to legalize the factory and build a suitable place. He also said that he is an individual microentrepreneur (MEI) and could not imagine ending up in prison.
"I'm going to try to get it legalized, I put it in my house. I'm going to Idaf, I want the blueprint of the building so I don't do anything wrong, I want help from surveillance and they were willing to help. This encouraged me to regularize myself and have my income within the law so that no one could persecute me", he highlighted.
Daniel Paixão was arrested by the Civil Police and had the cheese factory closed by the Health Surveillance
Personal file
Daniel acknowledged that the production location was not suitable, but denied that he sold the cheese below price and that the milk used was inadequate.
"I was working in a more artisanal way, without planning because I went after legalizing, assembling the building and we didn't have support from the competent bodies. The person who still helped was Idaf, which has the D'Colônia Seal. It limits me to working with 500 kilos of serum, I don't need a cold room and I can use a water tank, but I need a pasteurizer that costs R$30,000", he stated.
The rural producer started producing cheese outside his home in December last year to try to earn extra income.
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"They judge it because it doesn't have its own tiled environment, but I have always preserved the quality of the milk itself. I always demanded quality milk, clean, without impurities, I carried out impurity tests. I have never had reports of anyone getting sick eating my cheese, my customers praise it a lot", he claimed.
He said he produced, on average, 20 cheeses a day. Production reached more than 500 kilos monthly.
"I sold to snack bars and people who make kebabs. I'm a single father, I have a ten-year-old son and my family works in agriculture. I deliver peeled cassava, I don't live off cheese alone", he explained.
Cheese was produced without pasteurization and stored unevenly
Personal file/ Civil Police
Illegal weapon
Regarding the shotgun seized on the property, Daniel said he used the weapon to scare off wild animals that invaded the family's land to attack chickens and other animals.
"Every settler has a shotgun. I used it to scare off a mucura that was eating the chickens and a jacuraru that could eat the chicken's eggs. I never used it for any other purpose. I could pay bail for the gun, but the issue was the cheese factory", he concluded.
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