Vijayawada: Adulterated meat being served in restaurants, authorities seize tonnes of mutton

The meat mafia in Vijayawada has been affecting the people. Dead chickens, dead goats and sheep are bought cheaply, dressed neatly and supplied to restaurants and hotels and sold openly every Sunday. They are selling counterfeit meat and endangering public health. The city is reported to be selling four tonnes of adulterated meat a week.

According to the regulations, vendors of mutton and beef must slaughter and sell with VMC stamps on the body of the animal concerned. But the meat of one cattle, goat, and sheep is stamped and the rest is sold freely. Some traders do not even follow it. There has been no change in the traders despite the attacks by the authorities.

On the 4th of this month, food inspectors and VMC veterinary officers seized 400 kg of meat stored in a restaurant on Bandar Road. Making a variety of meat products from worm-infested meat in the fridge has recently caused a sensation. During the raids at Golla Palem Gattu road in Bhavanipuram on the 8th of this month, VMC officials seized 400 kg of meat from bulk meat vendors supplying to reputed hotels in the city.

In these attacks the worms came out of the dead goat meat. Authorities also said that keeping meat in a rusty freezer can make those who eat the rusty meat sick. On October 3, authorities seized 100 goat skulls being imported into the city from Bhubaneshwar at a railway parcel counter and on the 10th of this month, he was stopped while selling 100 kg of stored fish at a fish market in Ramalingeswara Nagar. Followed by 15th of this month, a case was registered after seizing meat from three traders selling beef along with mutton in Currency Nagar and Ramachandra Nagar.