Santa Fe bans Lechevit powdered milk after counterfeit finding

Santa Fe’s food-safety authority, Assal, has prohibited the manufacture, holding, movement and marketing of one batch of Lechevit powdered milk throughout the province. The measure concerns a product identified in the source as falsified.

The order applies to every stage specified by the authority. It covers the making of the batch, its possession, its transport and its commercialisation. The restriction is province-wide rather than limited to a single point of sale or production site.

Assal based the action on laboratory analyses of the product. The tests examined the fat profile of the powder and found that it did not correspond to the profile of dairy fat.

The analysis also assessed the powder’s wettability, a property associated with how powdered milk interacts with liquid. According to the findings, the Lechevit product did not display the wettability expected of powdered milk.

Together, those test results formed the factual basis for Assal’s prohibition of the batch. The authority’s order therefore addresses both the composition identified by the analysis and the product’s presence in the supply chain, from production and storage to transport and sale.

No further information about the batch, including its quantity, distribution points or the date of the order, was provided in the source. The reported action remains a ban on the specified Lechevit powdered-milk lot across Santa Fe.