St Catherine Chief Public Health Inspector Grayson Hutchinson is warning the public to be vigilant when purchasing meats, so they are not sold products from unregistered slaughterhouses. He said that, despite the parish having 48 registered slaughterhouses and 140 licensed butchers, unscrupulous individuals were circumventing the system and putting meat not passed by health inspectors on the market. “We (health inspectors) have been doing a rigorous market surveillance throughout the parish, and will continue. We must inform the consumers to buy from reputable sources such as the meat markets, the meat sections of reputable businesses,” Hutchinson said. “The meats, when properly inspected, will be branded with the inspector of health’s stamp. The consumer best buy is from these sources as, whenever an animal is slaughtered, it should be tested to see that it is fit and proper for human consumption,” he stressed.