A chicken-meat shop in Sewri was caught supplying around 25 kilos of rotting meat to roadside Chinese carts. The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), acting on a complaint by social activist Bala Vengurlekar, raided a shop owned by Nimish Dagal in Bara Devi slum in Sewri on Tuesday.
"Chickens that had died during transportation were purchased by the shop owner and sold it customers, instead of freshly-butchered meat," said FDA Joint Commissioner (Food) Chandrashekhar Salunkhe, adding, "As soon as we got the information, our inspectors went to the shop to inspect it and seized 25 kg of raw chicken meat."
The meat was sold at Rs 30 per kg and Dagal did not have a registered licence. The FDA has filed an FIR against him under the Food Safety and Standard (FSSAI) Act.
"We regularly check raw food shops but after such cases come into the limelight, the dodgy shop owners are alerted and stop such activities for a while," Salunkhe said.
