Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several butchers were arrested Thursday as Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) conducted a joint operation on butcheries across the city.
One Joseph Kayondo and Ssekabila were arrested after Public Health Inspectors found a concoction of chemicals being used, apparently to preserve the meat, at their butcheries in Ntinda. KCCA said the concoction of chemicals will be subjected to laboratory procedure to ascertain the components and its effects.
“On our routine inspection by our Public Health Teams, we found a number of butcheries in very insanitary conditions which we closed off and arrested the butchers in the practice of using a concoction of chemicals to preserve the meat. Intense inspections continue,” KCCA said online about the operation.
The joint operation was aimed to check the hygienic state of the meat and the butchers, structural standards of these butcheries find out the meat preservation mechanisms.
Several social media reports have in the past few months indicated that many butcheries in Kampala use chemicals like formalin to preserve meat. Most butcheries lack proper cold storage facilities to preserve meat and supervision of hygiene conditions rare.
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