Overview
- Hyderabad Food Adulteration and Surveillance Team and GHMC enforcement units intercepted multiple trucks carrying poultry waste and seized the loads after raids on city godowns.
- Reports differ on scale with officials citing either seven trucks and about 90 tonnes seized or nine lorries totaling about 120 tonnes, but all accounts confirm the material was taken into custody.
- Investigators say the waste was collected from poultry and meat shops in Hyderabad and was supposed to go to the Chengicherla rendering facility but was diverted to commercial fish farms in Andhra Pradesh.
- Police and GHMC veterinarians have registered cases, disposed of seized material under official procedures, and issued public warnings that fish fed on untreated poultry waste can introduce biological contaminants into the food chain.
- Authorities are probing the diversion and transport chain to identify who collected, moved, and received the waste and the inquiry could prompt tighter controls on waste routing and risks to fish farmers and consumers.