Perth restaurant fined $13k for pet meat violation

A PERTH restaurant has been fined $14,000 after a health inspector walked into the kitchen and saw the owner processing pet meat.

Kopikaran Krishnasamy, owner of Indian restaurant Cafe Marica, was fined the huge sum and told to pay court costs for breaching health food regulations.

Mr Krishnasamy was charged with having packaged and unpackaged pet meat — 15kg of mutton — at his Canning Vale restaurant.

When the inspector walked into the kitchen, he spotted Mr Krishnasamy processing some of the mutton, the rest of which was sitting in a clear plastic bag and labelled, “Pet food only, not for human consumption”. Read more