DOHA: Municipal inspectors have booked a commercial complex in Mamoura for selling subsidised Australian meat at prohibitive prices, branding it as Jordanian and New Zealand meat.
The fraud was detected during surprise raids by health inspectors of Doha Municipality.
The outlet was found selling Australian mutton at QR36 per kg branding it as New Zealand mutton, while the subsidised Australian mutton cost only QR14.5 per kg, Al Sharq reports.
“Jordanian” mutton was also sold at the outlet at QR52 per kg but investigations proved that it was the same low-priced Australian mutton.
Special parts of the Australian sheep like bones, liver, kidney and heart were also sold at higher prices, on claims that they were Jordanian.
Inspectors forced the outlet to change the price tag and display actual prices. The case has been referred to the Consumer Protection Department, the daily added.
DOHA: Unification of prices of some medicines in the GCC countries is on the agenda of a regional health panel which began its meeting here yesterday.
The meeting of the “medicines pricing team” in the GCC countries is discussing standardising prices.
The panel would discuss unification of prices of eye, malignant, anaesthesia, immunology, blood and nutrition drugs.
During the four-day meeting, participants will also discuss observations made by companies concerned and recommendations approved by the Executive Board of the Health Ministers’ Council for GCC States at its 80th meeting in Riyadh last month. The Peninsula/QNA
