Chicken waste being used to prepare protein & soap

Source: The News

Date: July 01, 2010

Health department looking into legal aspects

There are factories in town preparing protein and an oil to be used in soap industry from chicken waste including chicken’s intestines and wings, however the District Health Department is not clear as yet on whether the business is legal or not.

‘The News’ has learnt that a number of parties in town purchase chicken waste from poultry shops located in town on daily basis. The chicken waste is transported to factories in different areas of the district in the night where protein is prepared from the waste. The protein being used from chicken waste is used in poultry feed to be consumed by chickens in poultry farms.

The factories are also preparing oil from the chicken waste which is used in preparing a type of soap to be used for washing kitchen utensils.

“We are working on checking legality of the business,” said District Food Inspector (DFI) Rana Ghulam Murtaza while confirmed to ‘The News’ here on Wednesday that factories in different areas of town prepare protein and oil from the chicken waste.

On Tuesday, a District Health Department’s team under supervision of the DFI inspected a factory, Sheikh Poultry and Oil, located in Rawat Industrial Area, which has been preparing protein and oil from the chicken waste. “We witnessed there at the factory that chicken waste is heated up in huge cookers to extract protein and oil from it.”

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