Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 17: Continuing with the drive to ensure availability of wholesome sweets, fenniya/katlama and dry fruits on the eve of Karvachauth and Deewali to the consumer at large, a team of Drug and Food Control Organization today carried out inspections of various sweet shops and lifted samples of food items for testing in the lab.
The team of Food Safety Officers, Daleep Singh, Jai Inder Singh, Hans Raj and Ajay Khajuria, under the supervision of Sanjeev Kumar, Asstt. Controller Food ,(MLJ) , Drugs & Food Control Organization, J&K, Jammu , carried out inspections of sweet shops in the area of Canal Road, BC Road, Kanji House, Jewel, Digiana, Shastri Nagar, Gandhi Nagar areas.
The samples of various sweets, such as Fenniya, Kalakhand, Rasgulla, Khoya, Pehra, Patisa, Pinni, etc and dry fruits (badam/kaju) were lifted from the vendors namely M/s Bikano Family Restaurant , Mahajan Sweet Shop, Kwality Sweet Shop Canal Road, Jammu, Roop Singh Digiana, Ishwal Sweet Shop Digiana, Jandial Sweet Shop, Shastri Nagar, Jammu , Pahalwan Di Hatti Gandhi Nagar, Jammu, M/s Milk Shop (Mahalaxmi), BC Road, M/s Romal Singh Joginder Pal, BC Road, M/s Dayal Dry Fruit, Below Gumat, Jammu, M/s Devkinanadan Gupta, Kanji House, Jammu & M/s Jai Vaishno Petha Food Products, Kanji House, Jammu. These samples have been sent to the Food Testing laboratory for analysis.
Moreover, all the food business operators dealing with sweets, were sensitized to observe/ secure compliance with sanitary and hygienic conditions of their premises as per mandate of the FSS (Licensing & Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations 2011 in letter and spirit and prepare/sell the standard quality sweets to the general public.
All the consumers have also been informed that in case of any compliant regarding the quality of the food article or having information regarding unscrupulous elements engaged in procuring/selling substandard/unsafe food articles , they can lodge a compliant on the helpline number 0191-2538527, 9419191357 and 9419105077.
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