National Food Agency seizes more than 1 tonne of harmful, expired meat

The seized meat will be destroyed by the employees of the Food Safety Agency of Georgia. Photo: Food Safety Agency press office.

Agenda.ge, 22 Mar 2019 - 13:20, Tbilisi,Georgia

The Georgian National Food Agency has seized more than one tonne of meat from different companies in Tbilisi, as they possessed either expired, harmful or unchecked meat.

The agency says that meat seized from Companies Dadu and Ina was a health hazard, while LTD Nikora [not related to food chain Nikora] possessed more than 240 kg of expired meat.

The companies have been fined and the meat will be destroyed by the employees of the Food Safety Service.