The raid last Thursday was a joint operation installed with workers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department under policies on cats and dogs.
Reclamation Street, where a store was discovered to be offering cat meat for human usage. Photo: Handout
Environmental health authorities will likewise prosecute people under the Food Business Regulation for storage and belongings of frozen or cooled meat for sale without approval.
The representative said the 2 companies and custom-mades authorities would interact to perform joint operations to increase check on suspicious automobiles getting here from throughout the border.
An examination by a city media organisation earlier discovered an account on mainland Chinese messaging app WeChat that cat and dog meat and other items might be sent straight from Kaiping in Guangdong province to Hong Kong which a shop on Reclamation Street offered such products.
The report said the shop offered packaged meat at HK$100 (US$12.7) for about 600 grams.
The shop operator was seen in a video revealing the meat to a press reporter.
The report said the items had actually been checked by a lab, which verified they were of cat and dog origin.
The store operator rejected the event later on, regardless of the video proof, and insisted his business was legal.
The shop was closed when a Post press reporter visited it last Friday.
Neighbours said they comprehended that the shop offered chicken, however they were uninformed of the sale of cat and dog meat.
