Bid to supply dead chickens foiled
The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) foiled an attempt to supply 1,600 kg of rotten meat of dead chickens to hotels in the Ganj Mandi poultry market and arrested the supplier.
On a tip-off about the supply of a large number of dead and rotten chicken meat to restaurants and hotels, PFA teams caught the supplier red-handed and seized the dead chickens.
A spokesman for the PFA said that food safety teams had been informed tipped that a poultry supplier named Shamshad was going to supply rotten meat of dead chickens to hotels.
He said that the supplier had loaded the carcass into two vehicles when the PFA teams intercepted him and recovered 1,600 kg of dead chicken meat.
The spokesman said that a case has been registered against supplier Shamshad at the Ganj Mandi police station on a complaint of the PFA.
“This unhealthy meat of dead chickens was to be prepared and supplied to various restaurants and fast food points. The use of dead meat in food is not only ‘haraam’ but also causes many diseases,” he said adding that people who buy and sell unhealthy meat will also be arrested.
The PFA has appealed to the public to check chickens thoroughly before getting them slaughtered. Never buy lean, young or pre-slaughtered chickens, the spokesperson said.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 28th, 2022.