Tirupur: Officers of the food safety and drug administration have issued show-cause notices to 32 hostels in the district either for failing to obtain license or for serving sub-standard food.
As many as 14 hostels which were served improvement notices for providing sub-standard food should improve within two weeks. Other 18 hostels were slapped with the notices under Section 63 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, and they have to get licenses within two weeks.
The action follows the inspection of 64 hostels, including state-run and private college hostels as well as working women hostels, by FSDA officials across the district last week.
B Vijaya Lalitha Ambikai, designated officer of FSDA for Tirupur, said, “We found lapses in hygiene and standards in food, including improper storage, using expired products and colouring materials, besides unclean vessels. So, we issued the improvement notices to them.”
In case of 18 hostels, they had not obtained mandatory license for operating canteens. Officials also seized single-use plastics from many hostels. “It is important that the hostels follow norms including appointment of right cook, following first-in-first-out inventory method and keeping food samples, besides other standard procedures,” Ambikai said.
The FSDA was planning to conduct an awareness programme soon to sensitize organizations which handle food.
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