Meat which expired three years ago recovered from Karachi eatery’s godown

Karachiites, you better watch what you eat.  The food authority has found expired meat from the inventory of a sealed restaurant Tuesday night.

The Sindh Food Authority conducted the raid following the death of minor brothers, who ate ‘unhygienic food’ at the restaurant.

The food authority and the police found a Suzuki pickup being loaded with food items, such as imported meat packages and juice. However, the meat had expired three years ago.

Over 80 kilogrammes of rotten meat, hundreds of expired squash (juice) bottles were confiscated.

Related: Two children die after eating ‘unhygienic food’ at Karachi restaurant

The staff of the restaurant cleaned the fridges and disposed of most of the food items before the raid.

Ahmed and Mohammad died on Saturday night after eating food from two places – Arizona Grill and Chunky Monkey. They ate candy floss at Chunky Monkey and went to Arizona Grill in Zamzama for dinner with their mother.

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Arizona Grill’s Zamzama branch has been sealed, however, the other branches of the restaurant are operating.

The postmortem examinations of the two brothers, Ahmed aged 1.5 years and Mohammad, five, were conducted at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. The police have sent samples for a chemical test to Islamabad and the results will take around one week. The bodies were handed over to the family.

A case has been registered.

Meanwhile, the police are investigating the delay in admitting the children to the hospital. “We are confirming the time duration from the family, The family is in a state of shock and are not able to talk at the moment,” said Sindh south investigation SSP Tariq Razzak Dharejo.

Article source: https://www.samaa.tv/news/2018/11/meat-which-expired-three-years-ago-recovered-from-karachi-eaterys-godown/