200 kg rotten meat seized in Kovilpatti

Thoothukudi district administration had recently received complaints of rotten meat being sold at Kovilpatti and hence based on the direction of district administration FSSAI officials led by Designated officer, Thanga Vignesh, carried out surprise inspection at the meat shops at Kovilpatti market, at Kadalaiyur and Ettayapuram roads. 

All the meat shops including chicken, mutton and fish shops were raided and in the raid, rotten meats were found in 18 shops. The meats weighing around 200 kilograms were seized by the officials. 

The names of the shops were noted down and the meal sellers were warned of strict action if they repeated such incidents again. Following that, Thanga Vignesh informed the media that the meat when it is cut out of the animals would be fresh only a for few hours and they should be sold immediately. 

If they were kept for one single day they would become unfit for human consumption. But the meat in the shops were kept for more than two days and also they were not preserved properly. They have received several complaints from Kovilpatti that rotten meat was sold and hence, they raided and seized meat around Rs 1 lakh. The seized meat would be destroyed, said Vignesh. 

When asked about the action taken on the meat, traders selling rotten meat he replied that it is the first time that such a seizure had happened and hence they were warned of strict action if they were found selling the rotten meat again.