Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 8: Department of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) along with the Food Safety Department in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district have come down heavily on the violators as the joint drive of both the departments remains on across the district.
As per officials, a joint team of the FCS&CA and Food Safety as a part of an aggressive drive to make sure that the food safety standards and other norms are adhered to carried out a raid on a few poultry wholesalers for selling the chicken at exorbitant rates.
During the raid, officials said that dead chickens were recovered from Akbar Poultry Farm, Baramulla, while as another one named Bhat Poultry Farm, Baramulla was sealed for overpricing.
Tariq Ahmad Sheikh Assistant Director FCS&CA, Baramulla told Excelsior that the owner of the poultry farm wherefrom the ‘dead chicken’ was recovered has been slapped with a fine of Rs 40,000.
Also, the officials said that the joint team today as well continued with the drive and zeroed on a bakery unit that was found to be operating under unhygienic conditions and the workers preparing the bakery were also found unhygienic. The entire unit was found operating under conditions in total contrast to the SOPs.
“A fine of Rs 50,000 was imposed on the bakery unit and he was asked to follow the norms and SOPs essential for his is unit to function,” the Assistant Director FCS&CA, Baramulla said.
The officials of the Food Safety Department said that the products made at the bakery unit were destroyed on the spot along the raw material which was prepared from the making of the bakery products was also destroyed after proper samples were taken.
They said that after the fine was imposed on the bakery unit, at least 2 mutton shops were also seized in Baramulla by the joint team for selling mutton at exorbitant rates.
The Assistant Director FCS&CA, Baramulla told Excelsior that the drive will continue jointly and they will make sure that the people are provided hygienic products and as per rates set by the Government.
“Nobody will be allowed to resort to violations; we have constituted more teams and such drives will continue in the district in coming days,” he said.
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