CHENNAI: Officials from the food safety department and city corporation's Royapuram zone destroyed 350 kg of stale veal, meat of calves, seized from nine shops in Periyamet in a raid on Friday.
"They had stocked up the meat two days ago and were selling it to local food joints. Animals were also slaughtered in the shops we raided. We have booked them for illegal slaughtering and for selling decaying meat," said an official.
Officials said smell from the foul meat is masked using preservatives, additives and is sold cheap to roadside eateries. Two of the nine shops were found running without trade licences, said a corporation official. The seized meat was destroyed and buried inside the corporation's dumpyard at Kodungaiyur. As per the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Slaughter House) Rules, 2001, slaughter of cow and calf is banned in Tamil Nadu.
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