The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has declared the meat being sold at Tollinton market of the provincial metropolis as unhygienic because of sewerage and pet shops situated in the market. "Meat from shops at Tollinton market may case typhoid, food poisoning, Hepatitis and many other diseases of stomach and intestine," said a warning letter issued by DG PFA Noor-ul-Amin Mengal to the consumer as well as meat sellers of this market.
The letter has asked the shopkeepers of this market to immediately shift their businesses to some safer place while common people, hotels, restaurant and catering companies have been asked not to buy meat from Tollinton market. Mengal claimed that they have issued this warning after the recommendation of the scientific panel of the authority. He warned that strict action would be taken against those who would ignore this warning and buy meat from this market.
The DG PFA said this ban was not an immediate or sudden step but shopkeepers and administration of the market had been warned many a times in the past. The authority had also written a letter to the department concerned and the city mayor for shifting of the market to some safer place.