{"id":72435,"date":"2024-03-18T04:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/dead-chicken-meat-being-used-in-shawarma\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T04:16:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:16:03","slug":"dead-chicken-meat-being-used-in-shawarma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/dead-chicken-meat-being-used-in-shawarma\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead chicken meat being used in Shawarma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">LAHORE: In a shocking development, it was revealed that dead chicken meat is being used in food items, particularly in Shawarma in Lahore, ARY News reported.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking in ARY News Programme\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sham-e-Ramzan<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Punjab Food Authority Director General Muhammad Asim Javed said that 80 Kilograms of expired meat had been seized from a market in Lahore during the operations in the last two days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cToday (Sunday), 2500 Kg of expired meat has also been seized in a joint operation by the Punjab Food Authority and Food Department from a famous meat market located near Mughulpura,\u201d Muhammad Asim Javed said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Farynewsasia%2Fvideos%2F2091274521228245%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=395&amp;t=0\" width=\"395\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The director general of the Punjab Food Authority described it as a serious problem in Lahore and stated that both dead animal meat and the one that reached its full expiration date have been confiscated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He claimed that during the first Ramadan, the Punjab Food Authority found and confiscated 1,000 kg of beef taken from dead animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Muhammad Asim Javed said that the Punjab Food Authority carried out 1800 raids over the previous two months, seizing about 20,000 kg of expired or dead chicken meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Punjab Food Authority Director General further stated that in the previous two and a half months, 70,000 kg of expired or dead animals\u2019 meat had been seized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said that meat safety teams comprising veterinary doctors and food safety officers conduct operations and surveys in the markets regularly to ensure the provision of hygienic meat to the citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: In a shocking development, it was revealed that dead chicken meat is being used in food items, particularly in Shawarma in Lahore, ARY News reported. 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