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Kebab Company Fined £500,000 After Selling ‘Lamb’ Products Found to Be Mostly Fat and Skin
The firm was ordered to pay £259,298 in costs after prosecutors said it sold kebabs with little or no lamb.
- Kismet Kebabs Ltd was fined £500,000 on Friday and ordered to pay £259,298 in prosecution costs for systematically misleading wholesalers, retailers, and consumers with fraudulent meat products.
- Swansea Council trading standards launched an investigation in late 2020 after regional sampling found kebab products did not match declared meat content, prompting a factory visit on May 20, 2021.
- Invoices revealed the firm purchased little lamb but large volumes of skin, fat, goat, and mutton; one doner claiming 87 per cent lamb contained only 51 per cent meat and 40 per cent fat.
- Judge Huw Rees described the conduct as "organised, planned, unlawful activity" and cited "considerable dishonesty," while Barrister Stuart Jessop argued the firm had "taken its eye off the ball."
- The court granted the company four years to pay penalties, while Essex County Council terminated its Primary Authority Partnership with the firm following serious labelling concerns identified during factory audits.
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A British company that makes kebab for restaurants has been fined nearly 600,000 pounds. The lamb turned out to consist of fat and other low-quality meat.
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'Award winning' company fined £500k after what 'lamb kebab' made of revealed
You are not doner believe what is inside the Chelmsford factory of ‘award winning’ Kismet Kebabs(Picture: Media Wales) A kebab company routinely used goat, turkey, skin, mutton and fat and sold it as lamb to takeaways across the country. In one lamb doner, produced by Kismet Kebabs, which claimed to contain 87 per cent lamb, turned out to be only 51 per cent meat and 40 per cent fat. Kismet Kebabs was awarded Best Supplier of the Year in the 202…
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