Council inspection leads to closer of 51 food retailers

A principal economist at GCC Tebogo Tshoswane told the council sitting on Tuesday that the reason for refusing to renew licenses was because some shops and supermarket did not abide by health requirements. Some were found to be selling expired food items, he said. 

“Our inspection covers the whole area including the floor, food items sold, kitchen, toilet and fridges that keeps frozen food items. For example in trading premises amount of food disposed in kilogrammes  was 5,296.2 kg and amount of food disposed in litres was 714.4 kg,” Tshoswane said.  He said due to limited resources 90 inspections were done within service standard.