DHANBAD: The district education department alerted as many as 1,800 schools to ensure that artificial eggs are not be included in the midday meal menu. District superintendent of education Dilip Manjhi said the alert was sounded after the report on the sale of artificial eggs.
The department issued a notice to all the block education officers of the district to advise schools to take utmost care while purchasing eggs that would be served to the student's midday meals.
According to the notice if any negligence is found in any schools, the concerned principal and village committee will be held responsible and action will be taken against them. Schools have been advised to report to the education department and the food safety officer if they doubt the quality of eggs.
However, principals and teachers are in a fix as they lack the knowledge to differentiate between a duplicate egg from the original. "It is difficult to identify plastic eggs. We will try the traditional methods of dipping the eggs in water and see if it sinks. If we are still at doubt then we will replace it with fruits and send the egg sample to food safety officer."
On April 20 a resident of Bhuli ordered an egg-based snack from a roadside vendor but got suspicious owing to its strange taste.
He then reported the case to authorities after which food safety officer Alok Vishwakarm raided the wholesalers' warehouse in the city. Samples were collected and sent to Ranchi.
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