Quality control: Butchers to need licences for meat sales, says DO

Livestock Department teams find butchers selling substandard meat

FAISALABAD: The Livestock Department has started registration of butcheries to ensure sale of hygienic meat.

Livestock District Officer Haidar Ali told newsmen on Wednesday that the district government had received a large number of complaints about the sale of unhygienic and substandard meat.

He said Livestock Department teams had raided some butcheries and fined those found were selling substandard meat. He said despite this, sale of unhygienic meat had not declined.

He said the government how now decided to register abattoirs and shops selling meat.

Ali said a list of 500 butchers in the district had been compiled.

He said butchers were being encouraged to get licences from the Livestock Department.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 14^th, 2015.