Expired food, skin lightening creams seized during KZN inspection
Teams led by the KZN Economic Development Department have seized expired food and prohibited goods from businesses in eSikhaleni township, near Richards Bay.
MEC Ravi Pillay inspected three supermarkets and a hardware store yesterday.
Two were closed immediately due to health and safety concerns.
About R6 000 worth of prohibited skin lightening creams were confiscated and expired food was thrown out.
"Some of them did not have their documents. As citizens or foreigners are supposed to have documents, some of them did not have their licences for their business.
"Part of our job is to make sure that they comply with those things because we cant be a lawless country.
"If we are a lawless county and allow those things, then very soon we will hear about our children getting sick because they are eating expired food."
