A number of restaurants along the Senegambia Strip are leaving their customers in the dark about the type of meat they eat, according to information reaching What’s On-Gambia.

It emerged that the teeming customers hardly pay attention to how animals are killed amid concerns that restaurants do not follow halal methods of food production.

When contacted by our reporter, some of the restaurateurs were reluctant to discuss the issue. The proprietor of Karten’s Smiling Coast Restaurant & Bar, said he can’t confirm whether all the meat served in restaurants are halal.

“We buy from wholesalers that are Muslims and sometimes in normal supermarkets or occasionally from local deliverers,” he said.

He added: “But the best and most expensive meat is from Brazil, cannot guarantee that it is halal.”

A senior health inspector told What’s On-Gambia that his department is not providing any ‘halal inspection’. However, he said Muslim customers have the right to ask for meat that has been killed by customary halal methods.