Food factories operated using traditional ways face action over filthy practices

Health inspectors taking a good look inside the fermentation vats in the soy sauce factory in Penanti, Bukit Mertajam.

RAT skeletons and dung, dogs running around the food production facilities, plastic bags disintegrating in soy sauce fermentation vats and layers of filth caked on storage tanks and bins.

These were among the things that made health inspectors turn green with disgust when they raided four food factories run ‘the old way’ in mainland Penang.