KUWAIT CITY, Aug 4: The Capital Governorate Inspection Department at the Public Authority for Food and Nutrition (PAFN) continues its inspection tours to tighten control over food products sold to consumers in commercial establishments and markets in a bid to protect public health. Mubarakiya Center announced the destruction of about 132 kilograms of spoiled and adulterated meat after the inspectors checked a butcher shop in Shuwaikh Industrial Area.

In a press statement, the Director of the center Mohammad Al-Kandari revealed that the inspection teams monitored the sale of 97 kilograms of meat found unfit for human consumption as the properties like color, shape, and smell have changed. It was found that the expiration dates were removed in minced meat, in addition to about 35 kilograms of adulterated meat including the liver and kidneys of cows and goats.

They discovered frozen products being thawed to sell them as fresh after getting rid of the food data card that shows the production and expiration dates, he revealed. He said the teams issued 25 citations for various violations; such as the display of food items for sale even if they are unfit for human consumption, sale of adulterated food, workers handling food without a health certificate, employers who recruited workers without a health certificate, failure to adhere to public and personal hygiene regulations at work, failure to present the inspection record card to the authority’s employees upon request, and a worker who was handling food despite having wounds and without obtaining a ‘fit to work’ certificate.

By Marwa Al-Bahrawi and Jaber Al-Hamoud
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff and Agencies