Delhi Health Minister A K Walia has instructed the department of food safety to go strict against the food adulteration. Keeping in view last year's incident of adulteration in kutu atta affecting number of persons, the Minister has asked the department to lift samples in ample quantity to enhance level of confidence of consumers as far as quality of the goods including eatables is concerned.
He has taken pro-active measures by taking cognizance of last year's incident and has also instructed the Department Of Food Safety to pull up its socks and get ready to lift maximum number of samples from various markets.
The department has been asked to lift samples of kutu atta, milk, cheese, khoya, ghee, oil and maida and atta from different markets.
Further it has been decided to keep a close eye on the use of colours in sweets during Dussehra and Diwali.
The market associations are being advised to avoid food adulteration. The adulteration in food items will not be tolerated and the adulterators would be booked under the Food Safety & Standards Act. Dr Walia further instructed the department to keep their laboratories in working condition. It is need to acquire all testing material and kits to meet the rush of collected samples. The results must be made available within shortest possible time. The adulterators would be fined and punished at the earliest to discourage any further adulteration in food items in all times to come, a statement said today.
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