Unhygienic meat being sold in Nepalgunj

By Our Correspondent,Nepalgunj, Oct. 8: It has been found that large quantities of inedible, rotten and poor-quality meat and fish are being sold in Nepalgunj market during the festival.

The Joint Market Monitoring Committee found 173 kg of inedible, poor-quality meat and fish while monitoring the market and destroyed them.

The monitoring team fined the traders Rs. 25,000, the monitoring committee said.

According to Hari Bahadur Khatri, chief of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection Office, Nepalganj, 173 kg of rotten and poor-quality meat was found during the monitoring in 19 meat shops in the city, and the meat and fish were destroyed after paying a fines.

He said that during market monitoring, 58 kg of inedible, poor-quality and rotten mutton, 105 kg of chicken and 10 kg of fish were found in various shops and destroyed.

Meanwhile, the monitoring committee fined Rs. 20,000 to Sharif Fresh House in Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City-15 and Rs. 5,000 to Danish Fresh House in Ward No. 20, said Khatri.

He said that other shops have been instructed to pay attention to cleanliness and to sell only fresh and quality meat and fish.

During the festive season, expired food items, stale and inedible sweets in sweet shops, and inedible meat in meat shops are being sold openly in the market, so the locals demand that market monitoring should be continued and intensified.

Krishna Prasad Shrestha, the coordinator of Nepalgunj Civil Society, said that the concerned authority should intensified the market monitoring carefully to control the sale of inedible foods items during the festival period.