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Beirut Municipality Seizes and Shuts Down a Meat Processing Shop in Khandaq al-Ghamiq

Lebanese authorities announced the seizure and closure of a meat processing shop in Beirut on suspicion of selling frozen meat as fresh. According to Beirut Municipality, frozen meat was being thawed, cut and prepared at the shop, and two official reports were filed against the owner and his assistants.

📍 Where things stand: The shop is closed after its equipment and frozen meat packages were seized, and two official reports were filed against the owner and his assistants.

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18 Oct 2026, 12:23 Lebanese authorities announced the seizure and closure of a meat processing shop in Beirut, after suspecting it of selling frozen meat as fresh, without further details on the body that carried out the seizure, the quantities, or the legal measures.
18 Oct 2026, 12:28 Beirut Municipality, acting on the directives of Governor Marwan Abboud, uncovered a meat processing shop in the Khandaq al-Ghamiq area owned by Ahmad Kassar, where frozen meat was thawed, cut and prepared to be later sold as fresh. The Slaughterhouse Department, backed by the Beirut office of the Army Intelligence Directorate and the Beirut Guard Regiment, seized equipment used for cutting, thawing and mincing, along with packages of frozen meat whose wrappers had been removed after thawing. Two official reports were filed against the shop owner and his assistants, and the shop was closed.

Timeline written by AI from the sources below; updated as new reports arrive.

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