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Monitoring of meat, chicken sale ordered
The director general (health) UP government has issued fresh directions to monitor the sale of chicken and meat in the market even as the poultry business was limping back to normalcy after the bird flu scare about two months back. The directions has been issued in the wake of avian influenza virus threat--a deadliest of the bird flu strains which recently affected few people in Navapur taluq in Maharashtra.
The director general (health) UP government has issued fresh directions to monitor the sale of chicken and meat in the market even as the poultry business was limping back to normalcy after the bird flu scare about two months back.
The directions has been issued in the wake of avian influenza virus threat--a deadliest of the bird flu strains which recently affected few people in Navapur taluq in Maharashtra.
The DG has directed the chief medical officer and NN to closely monitor the sale of egg, chicken and meat in the market and ensure that they were sold in a hygienic manner.
"The district health department need to coordinate with the district magistrate and the chief veterinary officer for the supervision and monitoring of the sale of poultry items according to the hygiene standards and government norms," the director general further stated in the directions.
The DG has also asked to take proper action in this regard. Meanwhile the Nagar Nigam (NN) officials have planned to improve the sanitation of areas where licensed meat shops and poultry units are located.
Those in the poultry business have also been asked to take special care while handling chicken and other poultry items.
The meat shop owners have again been asked to wash the raw meat and chicken properly and use gloves for this process, informed the NN sources.
The sources, however, also informed that the report of 48 samples of suspected cases of bird flu cases sent to a viral culture laboratory in Pune two months back, was still awaited.
"All because of the lack of interest shown by the officer concerned."