Al-Ahsa Municipality, represented by the Services Agency “Kitchens and Random Slaughter Follow-up Committee”, in cooperation with the relevant sectors, seized 6 sites for random slaughterhouses (for slaughtering livestock) amidst environmental conditions that lack health and professional requirements and follow safety methods in slaughtering and are managed by illegal workers. Penalties were applied in accordance with the regulations. And regulations regarding violators
The municipality stressed that the committee in charge of the General Administration of Environmental Health is implementing scheduled plans to control random slaughter violations, remove the sites that are caught, and take legal measures against violators, indicating that the efforts in this aspect come as an emphasis on the importance of citizens and residents adhering to slaughtering in approved slaughterhouses and the benefits they provide. Services with specialized and qualified personnel and a healthy environment prepared for slaughtering livestock, avoiding the risks resulting from random slaughter outside specialized slaughterhouses and the resulting absence of veterinary examination of the carcasses before and after slaughter, the lack of health requirements for the site and mobile butchers, and the damage caused to the environment by slaughter waste.