FoodManufactureJune5
In the third week of June we reported that a halal food manufacturer has been fined £10,000 after beef proteins were detected in a chicken kebab product.
Preston-based Shazan Foods makes ethnic frozen foods, such as samosas and kebabs, all of which are halal certified. The firm supplied the ‘chicken’ kebabs to Asda stores nationwide.
Trading Standards prosecuted the firm for ‘causing Asda to sell chicken kebabs not of the nature demanded by the purchaser’.
Preston Magistrates Court said the firm had been “reckless and negligent”, and ordered it to pay about £900 costs in addition to the fine.
The case followed a complaint to Trading Standards by a consumer who bought a packet of Shazan’s Frozen Chicken Kebabs at Asda in Roehampton, London in June 2011.
An Asda spokeswoman said: “We’d like to point out that we’re not the only firm that Shazan Foods supplies.”
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