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By STEVE CAMPBELL
Rappahannock New* Special Writer
RICHMOND — An official charged with monitoring the health and sanitation of food handling in the state was innundatd with phone calls , Friday about the Prime Time Live program on Food Lion grocery ^ stores. ;•
Mark Tubbs, director of the Division of Dairy and Foods at the Virginia Department of Agriculture and * Consumer Services said his office re-^ ceived a flood of phone calls from ~ journalists and consumers about the program which aired Thursday evening.
The calls were in response to the Prime Time Live program which alleged that Food Lion stores in North Carolina repackaged out-of-date meat and deli products for resale.
The program claimed workers in the meat and deli departments of » Food Lion stores routinely disquised spoiled meat, fish and poultry and ,\ then repackaged the products for 4 sale with new “sell-by" dates.
“I got 18 or 19 phone messages ■ and did 13 interviews with newspa- : pen?,” Tubbs said.
The Dairy and Foods Division inspects businesses and organizations that handle food.
Inspectors look for a myriad of * sanitation violations and then work ' with the offending company to cor- ^ rect the problem.
If the company, after repeated ’ inspections, fails to correct the problem, the division will present the case to the state Commonwealth attorney for enforcement.
Tubbs said the two Food Lion stores in Fauquier County — one in , Warrenton, and the other in Beale- * ton — have a pretty good sanitation record.
Those problems that have been found were corrected, according to * Tubbs.
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