City of Cape Town Mayco Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, has called on members of the public to report any cases of food being prepared under unhygienic conditions to the City of Cape Town authorities and police.for allegedly running an unlicensed food manufacturing operation in the Mfuleni area.
After receiving a tip, authorities inspected the premises and they discovered sausage being processed and packaged in unsanitary conditions. Smith says the facility was processing and packaging sausage in unhygienic conditions, posing a significant health risk to consumers.“We have now recently in South Africa seen on a number of occasions unsanitary or dangerous food that has been contaminated and has led to the deaths of people and it is not a complaint that you can ignore.
“Because under the regulations they are violating and we would charge them criminally in terms of those. So, there will be criminal prosecution, but in this particular case, they also were undocumented foreign nationals which led to them to be arrested and possible as a consequence to be deported,” he adds.
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