Saudi Arabia: Municipality on lookout for flour pinchers

Jeddah / SA. (wib) Following the recent flour crisis, the Jeddah Municipality has reassured consumers that its market monitors are on the lookout for flour pinchers. In the last few weeks inspectors have visited 108 bakeries and found 58 of them were shortchanging customers on the amount of bread they were buying. The government controls the weight and price of bread, and bakeries cannot legally reduce the weight or increase the price of this important basic commodity. A municipal official told Arab News that inspectors are stepping up spot checks to ensure that the bread being sold in the market in the standard bags weigh no less than 510 grams: «If any bakery is found selling a one-riyal bag of bread that is less than the specified weight, it will be fined immediately».

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