Authorities have stepped up their efforts to check spurious and expired food from spreading in the country.

Just yesterday, alert municipality health officials raided a store in the Industrial Area and confiscated around 2,500kg of meat, which had fake expiry dates on them, reported The Peninsula.

The meat, which was in the form of carcasses, were being prepared for manipulation of expiry date. The perpetrators were caught replacing original information labels on the carcasses with new ones with extended expiry dates, according to Gulf Times.

The seized carcasses were destroyed and the storehouse was issued a violation report in accordance with the stipulation of law no 9 for 1990 on the Regulation of Human Food Control.