The Kochi Corporation has approached the city police
with a request to register a case against the person who sold decomposed
meat in the city.
A squad of the Health Wing of the
corporation had seized around 1,000 kg of rotting meat, marketed as
“tsunami meat,” from a peeling shed in Eda Kochi last week.
The
squad had also taken into custody a pickup van and a deep freezer used
for transporting and storing the meat, which was unfit for human
consumption.
The officials had been tracking the
movement of the meat vendor for quite some time following information of
the poor quality meat being supplied to some hotels and bakeries in the
city. The meat was reportedly brought to the city from Karnataka and
Tamil Nadu during the early hours of the day, officials said.
The
civic authorities collected information on the owner of the vehicle
from the Regional Transport Authority. It was found that the vehicle was
registered in the name of the person who was suspected to be behind the
illegal meat sale, said the chairman of the health standing committee,
T.K. Ashraf.
The details of the owner of the vehicle,
along with the notes on the stale meat had been handed over to the
Palluruthy police for initiating action. The statement prepared by the
Health Wing regarding the seizure was also provided to the authorities,
he said.
Moreover, the civic authorities are planning
to submit a complaint to the Food Safety Authority for initiating legal
action under the Act.
A senior official of the
corporation had held discussions with the Food Safety Commissioner in
this regard. A complaint will be filed with the authority on Wednesday,
he said.
It was suspected that the low-priced minced
meat procured from the neighbouring States was being sold to city hotels
for more than a year.
The accused needs to be
interrogated for obtaining the details of the hotels and bakeries which
had been purchasing the meat from him, Mr. Ashraf said.
A complaint will be filed with the Food Safety Authority today.
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