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A meat factory on the Cape Flats has given it new meaning Honne is worried aka cent polonies after they were arrested for allegedly making sausage with dog food.

The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has now called for stricter food safety regulations following the crisis in Mfuleni on Wednesday.

A sickening video from officials showed dog food on a metal table apparently being put through a sausage machine.

It also shows a broken car in the dirty building, amid a pile of rubble. buckets where dirty water and meat are packed in the packaging dirty place. Labels with ‘Diamond Wors’ were also seized.

The city’s Mayco member for safety and security, JP Smith, said: “After receiving a tip-off, authorities launched a joint operation involving SAPS Crime Intelligence, city officials and city health staff, together with investigators from the Strategic Information Management Service of the city.”

Their key findings included that the work was processed and packaged in dirty conditions, while the owner and four employees were also suspected to be in the country illegally.

Smith said everyone at the property was being held, adding: “The property was declared a crime scene and forensic experts are processing the contents and seizing food samples for further examination.”

A Mfuleni resident who did not want to be named told the Daily Voice: “This was a busy shop, we would see a lot of customers. They supplied Somali spaza shops in Mfuleni, Delft and Khayelitsha. We already suspected that something was wrong with the sausage and when we heard that it contained dog food, I was completely shocked.”

The factory was closed on Thursday. The blue building next to a spaza shop had no signage.

Mayco Member for Community Services and Health, Councilor Patricia Van der Ross said: “A penalty has been imposed under health legislation, and the matter will be prepared for court in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act. Arrests have been made by enforcement authorities. “

FAWU provincial secretary Zolani Mbanjwa said South Africans face a serious challenge when it comes to food security.

“We need the government to enforce inspections, especially in our communities, because inspections are usually carried out in real shops in city centers, but not in townships.

“We could see the dirty water being added to the sausage, and the machines were dirty.”

Mbanjwa adds: “Foreigners have decided to go to townships because they know there are no laws that are enforced.

“They produce at a lower price and sell at a low price.”

Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to address the nation in the coming days on the regulation of spaza shops.

This comes after several children died after allegedly eating snacks at a spaza shop in Gauteng.