LAHORE:Eight butchers were booked for selling unhygienic meat in Tollinton Market here on Tuesday.
A team of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) visited different chicken shops and discarded 1,400kg
meat of chicken.
PFA Director General Shoaib Khan Jadoon said the butchers were booked for not using cone
slaughtering system, thus failing to meet hygienic working environment. He said that the authority
also witnessed a poor storage system and found abundance insects during the raids.
He said that food business operators failed to present the food license and medical certificates
of their workers to the raiding teams on the spot.
The DG further said that selling meat in stinky environment around a sewer was tantamount to
spreading diseases. He said the PFA had been getting lodged FIRs against the habitual violators
in the respective police stations over the violations of Punjab Pure Food Regulations.