Feb 11, 2019

Private hospital canteen asked to shut shop

JAIPUR: A private canteen serving food in a private hospital was found functional without renewing its food licence, during an inspection by food safety officers of health department on Saturday. During the inspection, the officials found that the bottles of sauces and other items did not have labels of manufacturing and expiry dates.
Besides, there was no warning board of ‘tobacco prohibit area’ at the canteen. The officials said that fitness certificate of food handlers is necessary but the norms were flouted by the canteen. The fitness certificate is necessary to ward off risk of spread of infectious diseases. When food safety officers took up the matter with hospital administration, it assured action against the canteen. Within few hours, the hospital terminated the contract with the proprietor of the Jaipur-based Shree Shyam Green Chilli. Hospital gave three days’ time to canteen proprietor to vacate the space provided to it by the hospital administration.

No comments:

Post a Comment