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Municipal Slaughterhouses Ready for the Eid
Anisa Al-Oufia
Muscat Municipality has confirmed its readiness to meet the high demand for meat during Eid al-Fitr days. The Municipality made sure to increase the number of butchers in slaughterhouses and carrying out maintenance to the equipment and devices.
The municipality has also worked with the operating company to implement an online system to offer pre-reservation of private sacrifices for individuals. The system will start on Friday, 27 Ramadan until the second day of Eid al-Fitr, while carcasses can be delivered the next morning from the slaughterhouse refrigerators.
At the same time, local sheep and goats (Omani), cows and camels for individuals can be received in the slaughterhouse starting from Saturday 28 Ramadan to the second day of Eid al-Fitr, in the evening period from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm, and to receive the carcase on the same day.
Muscat Municipality urged all institutions, charities, companies and meat shops wishing to slaughter livestock in the slaughterhouses of Muscat Municipality to contact in advance with the company operating the slaughterhouses.
The municipality continues to emphasize the importance of following a number of instructions when buying fresh meat, namely:
• To make sure there is a municipal seal on the carcass, which confirms that the carcass has been slaughtered in municipal slaughterhouses under supervision of a veterinary.
• For imported chilled meat, it is advisable to check the label of each carcass which includes the country of production and the date of validity, and to keep it at a temperature not higher than 4 degrees Celsius.
• Frozen meat should be kept at a temperature not higher than -18 degrees Celsius.
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