Before the holiday, inspections were carried out at workplaces producing sweets and confectionery. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry teams conducted inspections of dessert, confectionery, and bakery product producing workplaces and sales points in anticipation of increased consumption before the Ramadan holiday. The General Directorate of Food and Control, affiliated with the Ministry, intensified its inspections to ensure that citizens have access to safe food as the Ramadan holiday approaches. In Ankara, as part of the checks conducted at production sites and sales points of these products, samples were taken from the products by the teams and hygiene rules were examined for compliance. Ersin Dilber, the General Director of Food and Control at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, stated to journalists after the inspections, “Since January, we have conducted approximately 256,000 food inspections in Turkey. We have imposed administrative fines on about 5,500 establishments that we found to pose risks to the public health in food inspections.” Dilber pointed out that they have imposed administrative fines of more than 500 million liras in these inspections, and said that they have filed criminal complaints against 150 establishments they deemed risky in terms of public health and food safety. Highlighting that they conducted nearly 126,000 inspections during Ramadan, Dilber emphasized, “In the inspections during Ramadan, we imposed approximately 220 million liras in administrative fines.”