Sep 5, 2013

JMC penalises defaulters for food adulteration

Jammu Tawi, September 4
Continuing the drive against the menace of adulteration, the Health Officer Jammu Municipal Corporation, Dr Vinod Sharma along-with a team of Food Safety Officers, Assistant Sanitation Officers, Sanitary Inspectors and other field staff conducted an extensive tour in the areas like Nanak Nagar, Preet Nagar, Digiana etc. Jammu City today on 04/09/2013 to check the quality of commonly used food items to the general public inspected various food establishments like Meat shops, Vegetables Shops, Fruits Shops, Halwai Shops etc and compounding fee of Rs 12,200/- was also realised from defaulters and about 15 kg of polythene was seized.
Moreover 02 (two) food samples of Paneer and two samples of carbonated beverage water were also lifted from different parts of Jammu city like Janki Vihar, Roop Nagar & Industrial Area Gangyal, and sent to Public Analyst Jammu for ascertaining their standard of purity.
During the round citizens were advised not to smoke in the public places as it is injurious to health, a fine of Rs 200 would be imposed to those not adhering to the norms. All the food establishment owners were asked to adhere to the terms & conditions of FSS Act 2006 & keep their premises neat & clean for ensuring supply of pure & good quality of food items to the customers. All the business owners are also instructed not to use polythene bags which is in long run injurious to health, can cause Cancer & impotency.





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