Engineer Mahmood Bin Mohammed Wali Kansarah, Assistant Deputy Mayor and Director General of Licenses and Commercial Supervision in Jeddah Mayoralty, said that the mayoralty has exerted great efforts and carried out a comprehensive campaign for closing down the chicken (feather) pluckers and changing their activity to shops for selling chilled chicken. He appealed to the citizens and expatriates to report on any shop or location that slaughters live chicken or sells slaughtered poultry of an unknown source so that they are held accountable. He stressed that the mayoralty is continuing its efforts to close down the ramshackle slaughterhouses. He pointed out that they have got rid of such slaughterhouses east of the expressway, specifically in the previous sheep market and Breiman. For the implementation of the conditions for the premises of water filling factories and their hygiene, Kansarah pointed out that owners of these factories have been given an additional three month grace period to implement the required conditions. He further said now a new system for supervision is being implemented. He said the mayoralty supervisors are working according to a new plan for supervision. He said they are working according to prior new plans and programs to follow strange phenomena and get rid of them. Such phenomena include hawkers and renting buggies and horses at Jeddah's Corniche as well as the precautionary measures to prevent the forging of health cards and others. Kansarah said a decision was issued by the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs in 2006 included the regulations for handling foods and public health. It had 47 articles including the rules for filling drinking water. Hence, the owners of drinking water filling factories were given a grace period of two years and they signed an undertaking to implement the required conditions but some have not yet. – Okaz __
