Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 4: A Food Safety team led by Dr Parvesh Kumar, Assistant Commissioner Food Safety Jammu challaned a sweet shop and lifted samples of sweets from other shops.
The Food Safety team also includes Food Safety Officer namely Ajay Khajuria, Daleep Singh, Jai Inder Kotwal and Hans Raj
After receiving complaints from several quarters, the team conducted inspections in various shops and lifted samples for analysis.
The team conducted inspection at Harihant Distributors and found expired cooking oil. The team also lifted samples for analysis and seized the expired material.
Later, the team also inspected Mahajan Sweets Shop and challaned the owner for cooking, processing and storing the eatables in unhygienic conditions. The food handlers were found to have poor personal hygiene. The samples of sweets were lifted for checking the quality of sweets.
The samples were also lifted for analysis from Kwality Sweet Shop at Canal Road, Labu Di Hati at Canal Road and Pargal Cheese Corner at Talab Tillo.
Assistant Commissioner Food Safety Jammu, Dr Parvesh apprised the sweet shop owners to serve quality and safe food to their customers and to maintain personal hygiene practices and good manufacturing practices for benefit of public health.
They were advised to keep the cooking area neat and clean and maintain personal hygiene so that people who eat food and eatables in their shops will get well nourished and hygienic food.
The participants were taught ways to maintain food quality and also informed about how this will help boost their income by providing good quality food to the customers.
It is to mention here that the Food Safety team earlier conducted awareness camp at Kwality Sweet Shop and asked the milk and milk products handlers to maintain the norms or face action. The drive carried out by the Food Safety team was part of that awareness camp as the milk and milk products handlers failed to adhere to the rules of Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act.
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