Jammu, December 9The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has directed shopkeepers dealing with milk distribution to keep milk testing machines on their premises.
The corporation has directed shopkeepers dealing with milk to place cow, buffalo and mixed milk separately on their premises.
Trying to stop the influx of adulterated milk in the city, the JMC has also decided to deploy teams of food safety officers at points from where the milk vendors enter city.
This has been decided as one of the steps to check the quality of milk before it reaches consumers. The corporation has also given its telephone numbers — 2571308 and 18001807034 (toll free) — in case of any complaint against shopkeepers.
“Officials have also been instructed to check licences of all milk vendors entering the limits of the Municipal Corporation and should not allow any milk vendor without licence to enter. They should also check the quality of milk sold by vendors who possess licence,” said a municipal official.
A senior municipal official said the civic body was fighting a losing battle against the adulteration in the city as it did not have required facility and equipment to test milk and its products.
Drive to stop adulteration
- The Municipal Corporation has directed shopkeepers dealing with milk to place cow, buffalo and mixed milk separately on their premises
- Trying to stop the influx of adulterated milk into the city, the MC has also decided to deploy teams of food safety officers at points from where the milk vendors enter the city
- The MC has also given its telephone numbers —2571308 and 18001807034 (toll free) — in case of any complaint against shopkeepers
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