Evaluation of food labeling for dairy, meat and fruit juice products launched in Tehran market

This inferential and descriptive study was aimed to identify faults and frauds in the labeling of dairy products, meat and fruit juice products launched in Tehran in 2012-2013 years. The data collection was performed by taking pictures of the food product's labels in 21 chain stores scattered in the North, South, East and West, Tehran. Subsequently, five defects including, without production license, wrong production license, not extended production license, unallowed HACCP and ISO22000 certificates were investigated. Finally, the comparisons were performed among four groups of the products which were under supervision of; (a) other province's university of medical sciences, (b) Tehran university of medical science, (c) Shahid Beheshti university of medical science, and (d) Iran university of medical science. According to the obtained results, in general, 3%, 26.83%, 27.44%, 29.88% and 22.26% of the three groups of products launched in Tehran market bore the defects of without production license, wrong production license, not extended production license, unallowed HACCP certificate and unallowed ISO22000 certificate, respectively. The Kruskal–Wallis test didnt show any significant difference among the mentioned four groups of universities of medical science in investigation of the defects of without production license, wrong production license, not extended production license, unallowed HACCP certificate and unallowed ISO22000 certificate (p-values: 0.198, 0.139, 0.575, 0.091 and 0.091, respectively). The amount of faults and frauds which were observed in this study revealed that stricter monitoring is required regarding the production license and HACCP and ISO22000 certificates.