52 Tons of Unsanitary Raw Livestock Products Destroyed in Maragheh

Maragheh – The head of the Maragheh Veterinary Office said 52 tons of raw livestock products unfit for consumption, unauthorized, and removed from the human food chain were destroyed in the county.

Maragheh - Head of Maragheh Veterinary Department said: 52 tons of unconsumable, unauthorized and out of human consumption raw animal products were destroyed in this city.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan Faraz Ahmadi, he said on Wednesday: Unconsumable raw animal products have been collected and taken out of the consumption cycle in 4,970 health inspection items from meat and food supply centers in the city.

He continued: Of this amount, about 40 tons of raw livestock products have been removed from the cycle of human consumption in livestock and poultry slaughterhouses before being released to the market.

Ahmadi added: Since the beginning of this year, the method of slaughtering and supplying 2 million and 700 thousand meat chickens and 28 thousand heads of light and heavy livestock has been monitored in the city's livestock and poultry slaughterhouses.

The head of Maragheh Veterinary Medicine said: The Veterinary Department, using the power of health experts and inspectors, continuously monitors the activity of livestock and poultry slaughterhouses around the clock so that healthy and sanitary raw animal products enter the distribution cycle.

He added: veterinary health supervision is a public, free and continuous service in the way of preserving people's health, protecting food resources and preventing the wastage of livestock products.

The head of the Maragheh Veterinary Department noted: Citizens can report any observation of suspicious raw animal products, unsanitary supply or violation in this area through the 1512 veterinary response system.