The Times of India 26.05.2010
MC drafts hygienic meat policy
CHANDIGARH: The city’s civic body has come up with a draft of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (Regulation for the sale of Meat, Fish and Poultry) Bylaws, 2010, and has sent that to the UT administration for approval.
The draft is meant to ensure hygiene when it comes to sale of non-vegetarian food products in Chandigarh.
Sources said some of the officials had given their consent for the draft and it would be sent to the administrator soon.
The suggested measures seek that shops selling meat chopped on the premises should have drains with sloped floors so that fluids like animal blood flow into the city sewer.
Another requirement of the draft is that all meat or poultry sold in the city should be obtained from MC slaughter house, which shall be duly stamped. Hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, snack bars or similar establishments are also to use such meat only.
Also, stale or unstamped meat and poultry found unfit for human consumption shall be seized or destroyed under the orders of medical officer for health, meat inspector or meat
supervisor.
Another prominent measure that the draft suggests is that live animals put on sale in shops for consumption would be seized and their meat sold in an open auction after slaughter.
Birds will be slaughtered for Rs 5 each at the MC-run facility.
Significantly, the draft also says that the processed meat, fish and poultry must be kept in a deep freezer or in wire gauze covering at shops and their premises shall be air conditioned.
PK Sharma, additional commissioner-cum-secretary to the MC said, “We have sent the draft to the UT administration and the officials’ decision is awaited.”
The draft is meant to ensure hygiene when it comes to sale of non-vegetarian food products in Chandigarh.
Sources said some of the officials had given their consent for the draft and it would be sent to the administrator soon.
The suggested measures seek that shops selling meat chopped on the premises should have drains with sloped floors so that fluids like animal blood flow into the city sewer.
Another requirement of the draft is that all meat or poultry sold in the city should be obtained from MC slaughter house, which shall be duly stamped. Hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, snack bars or similar establishments are also to use such meat only.
Also, stale or unstamped meat and poultry found unfit for human consumption shall be seized or destroyed under the orders of medical officer for health, meat inspector or meat
supervisor.
Another prominent measure that the draft suggests is that live animals put on sale in shops for consumption would be seized and their meat sold in an open auction after slaughter.
Birds will be slaughtered for Rs 5 each at the MC-run facility.
Significantly, the draft also says that the processed meat, fish and poultry must be kept in a deep freezer or in wire gauze covering at shops and their premises shall be air conditioned.
PK Sharma, additional commissioner-cum-secretary to the MC said, “We have sent the draft to the UT administration and the officials’ decision is awaited.”
