Students from Usgao school admitted in the sub-district hospital.
PONDA/PANAJI: Twenty three students including four girls from St Joseph’s High School in Usgao were admitted to the sub-district hospital on Friday afternoon on fears of food poisoning after they complained of pain in stomach after consuming a mid-day meal.
The students were from Classes V and VII, including one boy from Class III.
Hospital sources said that the students were observed for about six hours and later 22 students were discharged while the Class III boy, aged nine, has been kept under observation. Doctors said that the students mostly complained of gripping pain in stomach but did not show any symptoms of food poisoning like vomiting or loose motions.
The Class III student said that they were served bhaji pao as part of the mid-day meal during the recess. However, around noon, he along with other students started experiencing gripping pain in the stomach and they alerted their teachers, who shifted the students to the sub-district hospital.
Based on a complaint from the manager of the school Fr Felix Lobo, the police have registered a case under sections 272, 336, 337 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code, sections 50, 51, 56, 57 and 58 of the Goa food standard and safety act, 2006 and section 87(f) of the Goa public health act against the two self-help groups (SHGs), which were supplying the mid-day meals to the school.
The police further said that officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) visited the school and collected food samples, which have been sent for testing. Based on the reports, further police action will be initiated against the two SHGs, police said.
Meanwhile, the director of FDA Salim Veljee said that samples of the balance leftover food items like bhaji, pulao and pao have been sent to the laboratory at Bambolim for testing. He further said that the reports could be ready by Wednesday or Thursday as the samples require microbiological analysis to check and test them for bacterial contamination.
Incidentally on July 13, 2013, both the SHGs supplying mid-day meals to the above-mentioned school were inspected by FDA officers and no major sanitation lapses were detected.
FDA officials sealing food samples in the school premises as the deputy superintendent of police, Ponda Dinraj Govekar looks on.
However, after the news of suspected food poisoning case broke out, FDA officials again visited the SHGs and also the bakery from where the bread was supplied. The second inspection revealed that there were no major lapses in case of one of the suppliers, Kapilleshwari SHG, while in the case of the other supplier, Shivbaba SHG, the raw material was found to be stored on bare floor at its premises and vegetables were being cut on the floor and not kept in aluminium trays for which they were served a notice.
Hospital sources said that the students were observed for about six hours and later 22 students were discharged while the Class III boy, aged nine, has been kept under observation. Doctors said that the students mostly complained of gripping pain in stomach but did not show any symptoms of food poisoning like vomiting or loose motions.
The Class III student said that they were served bhaji pao as part of the mid-day meal during the recess. However, around noon, he along with other students started experiencing gripping pain in the stomach and they alerted their teachers, who shifted the students to the sub-district hospital.
Based on a complaint from the manager of the school Fr Felix Lobo, the police have registered a case under sections 272, 336, 337 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code, sections 50, 51, 56, 57 and 58 of the Goa food standard and safety act, 2006 and section 87(f) of the Goa public health act against the two self-help groups (SHGs), which were supplying the mid-day meals to the school.
The police further said that officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) visited the school and collected food samples, which have been sent for testing. Based on the reports, further police action will be initiated against the two SHGs, police said.
Meanwhile, the director of FDA Salim Veljee said that samples of the balance leftover food items like bhaji, pulao and pao have been sent to the laboratory at Bambolim for testing. He further said that the reports could be ready by Wednesday or Thursday as the samples require microbiological analysis to check and test them for bacterial contamination.
Incidentally on July 13, 2013, both the SHGs supplying mid-day meals to the above-mentioned school were inspected by FDA officers and no major sanitation lapses were detected.
FDA officials sealing food samples in the school premises as the deputy superintendent of police, Ponda Dinraj Govekar looks on.
However, after the news of suspected food poisoning case broke out, FDA officials again visited the SHGs and also the bakery from where the bread was supplied. The second inspection revealed that there were no major lapses in case of one of the suppliers, Kapilleshwari SHG, while in the case of the other supplier, Shivbaba SHG, the raw material was found to be stored on bare floor at its premises and vegetables were being cut on the floor and not kept in aluminium trays for which they were served a notice.
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