The City of Cape Town provides a number of services relating to environmental health. The focus areas are:sanitation and housing, planning and building development, institutional health and safety, disease control, food quality and safety, >
Port Health Services monitor and evaluate all foodstuffs, cosmetics, disinfectants, hazardous substances and medicines entering the Western Cape through the ports, and control and monitor the possible entering of all serious contagious diseases into the Western Cape and the rest of South Africa. These infectious ... >
The municipality is responsible for controlling and regulating abattoirs. The Maitland Abattoir falls under the jurisdiction on the City of Cape Town. The Maitland Abattoir is one of only two abattoirs in South Africa that provide Kosher and Halaal meat. >
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