Chandigarh Municipal Corporation in India has proposed the "Regulation for the sale of Meat, Fish and Poultry Bylaws, 2010" draft to ensure hygiene of non-vegetarian food sales in the city.

The draft has already been sent it to the UT administration for approval.

The suggested measures seek shops selling meat chopped on the premises should have drains with sloped floors so that fluids like animal blood could flow into the city sewer.

Another requirement of the draft is that all meat or poultry sold in the city should be obtained from MC slaughterhouse, which shall be duly stamped. Hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, snack bars or similar establishments are also to use only such meat.

Also, stale or unstamped meat and poultry found unfit for human consumption shall be seized or destroyed under the orders of a medical officer for health, meat inspector or meat supervisor.

Another prominent measure that the draft suggests is that live animals put on sale in shops for consumption would be seized and their meat sold in an open auction after slaughter.

Birds will be slaughtered for INR 5 (US$0.11) each at the MC-run facility.

Significantly, the draft also says that the processed meat, fish and poultry must be kept in a deep freezer or in wire gauze covering at shops and their premises shall be air-conditioned.