Ahmedabad: At a time when beef ban provkes bitter debates, CAG has blamed the state government for not bothering to control the quality of meat being sold in the state for the last five years.
In its report, CAG has highlighted that though the state has sizeable non-vegetarian population (39.05%), the Food & Drug Control Administration (FDCA) had not taken any measures to bring slaughterhouses and meat shops under the Food Safety Standard (FSS) Act.
The audit report has revealed that there are only nine slaughterhouses situated under the municipal corporation/municipality area but all of them are functioning without license under FSS Act.
The audit report has rebuked the authorities because out of thousands of meat shops in the state, only 55 had been registered when the FSS Act mandates compulsory registration/license to carry on any food business.
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