Oooops. Food
warehouses.... Kuwait... hmmmmm.... who could THAT be? Did somebody forget to
pay somebody off? Oh, that’s just WRONG. I bet that guy
is shet out of a job...
This was posted
by Kuwaitiful. Thanks for the heads-up. Good
posting.
The Ministry of
Commerce uncovered what is expected to be largest seize of rotten food in
Kuwait’s history. Four warehouses owned by the same company were changing the
expiry date of rotten (presumably to be resold again). I’m glad this is over
with but shocked something in this scale was operating.
Arabian business.com
Kuwait’s Ministry of
Commerce and Industry has uncovered several tonnes of expired and spoiled food
in an operation considered the largest seize in the Gulf state’s food
inspection history, it was reported.
Sources quoted by
the Kuwait Times said the two-day operation carried out Sunday
covered four warehouses owned by a single company, with items seized including
meat products, fish, poultry and other ingredients.
They said while they
indicated that the volume of the seized amount was yet to be fully determined,
it was the largest that ministry inspectors had ever dealt with.
Monitoring prior to
the raid revealed that workers inside the four warehouses were changing expiry
date labels on food boxes.
It was reported that
it was so large that the ministry called in help from the Kuwait Municipality
to sort through the items and destroy the bad food products.
“The shipments were
separated into parts, one sent to the MCI’s laboratories for testing and the
other taken to Kuwait Municipality labs,” the Times reported.
Abdulmohsen Al
Mudej, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce and Industry was reported
to have assigned a ministry consultant to follow up on the inspection and take
samples to the public prosecution.
The operation came
as part of extensive campaigns on markets and suppliers to detect
irregularities, including bad food and fake prices increases before the holy
month of Ramadan, which starts late June.
I think you highlighting the rotten food in this country should alert everyone. Just think, this is the food that is actually stopped before it is released to customers how much is not stopped?. Kuwait has a huge problem with rotting food, donkey, zebra meat etc. even dead carcasses being brought in and used. We once asked about the donkey etc. meat we had heard about from an extremely reliable source, i mean this guy KNOWS. And he said if you want to avoid eating zebra, donkey, rotten food. Dont eat in ANY restaurants.
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Don't you wish when they discover a company with a warehouse full of expired or rotting food that they would publish the name of the company? It drives me crazy to hear about restaurants that fail health inspections, foods that have expired, etc with NO ACCOUNTABILITY. If customers stop shopping with a place because they are known to have these illegal and unhealthy practices, it sends a strong message and disincentive to do it again.
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