More than 11,000 kilos of unknown chickens were seized in Qatif, Saudi Arabia

Media In / Riyadh 3 February 2019

The control and investigation carried out by the control teams of the Ministry of Commerce and Investment Saudi Arabia to a warehouse in the province of Qatif and for more than two months, to control more than 11 thousand kilos of chickens of unknown source, and more than 7 thousand chickens without commercial data and bear known trademarks, 14 workers were arrested in violation of the regulations of the site, in cooperation with the security authorities and the municipality of the province.
The seizures included more than 4,000 dead chicken dishes weighing 450 kg and 1928 an unpublished chicken dish with no commercial data, in an environment contrary to safety requirements, in addition to large quantities of more than 200,000 dishes for packing and labels for date forgery, , And the stickers, and all the quantities were destroyed in the site, and call the owner of the business to complete the formal procedures, before referring the case file to the prosecution.
The Ministry of Commerce and Investment confirmed the continuation of its control rounds on the warehouses and all commercial establishments to ensure their regularity, the absence of fraudulent practices, fraudulent use of consumers and the exploitation of the demand to buy and sell any non-conforming, counterfeit or counterfeit goods. Which is committed in accordance with the Commercial Fraud Control Law, where the sale of any products contrary to the system is an offense that requires a fine of not more than one million riyals or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years or both together with the closure of the establishment, in addition to publishing the summary of the judgment in two newspapers at the expense of the violator.