Halal meat fine
Halal meat featured for the second time in our list of the most popular articles of 2012 when a halal food manufacturer was fined £10,000, after beef proteins were detected in a chicken kebab product last June.
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.