Bhopal: In a meeting of top officials of the state, chief secretary SR Mohanty on Friday asked public secretaries of departments, district collectors and SPs to provide all necessary help to officials of food & drug administration department so that they could carry out campaign against adulterators without fear.
Additional chief secretaries (ACS) and principal secretaries of animal husbandry, home, transport, urban administration and dairy departments participated in the meeting. Minister for food & civil supplies Tulsi Silawat also attended the meeting.
Talking about proceedings of the meeting, Mohanty said “It’s going to be a major crackdown on adulterators. Related departments like food, health, cooperative, animal husbandry, transport and police would work in tandem to ensure that adulterators are not spared and strictest action prescribed under law is ensued against them”.
He added, “It’s not a campaign for a week or 10 days. It would be a continuous exercise and I would personally monitor it every month through video-conferencing”.
Meanwhile, a team of food and drug administration (FDA) department unearthed a factory manufacturing synthetic milk at Kolaras town and seized spurious milk and adulterants.
The chief secretary said that adulteration of food stuff was a crime against humanity and those indulging in it should not be spared at any cost. Mohanty added that while focus is currently on milk and milk products, other edibles will also be covered under the campaign soon.
Mohanty said that vigil should be maintained at state borders. He added that public awareness campaigns should also be undertaken so that people could identify adulterated goods themselves.
Chief secretary also instructed that police should provide security to food safety officers (FSOs) when they go for raids or to collect samples.
He asked district collectors and principal secretaries of departments concerned to hold review meetings at regular intervals to ensure there was no gap in drive against adulteration of edible goods.
Arvind Kumar Pathrol, a senior food safety officer, informed that teams of his department collected 71 samples from across the state including 33 samples of milk, eight of mawa and 26 of other milk products.
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