Dec 18, 2019

Packaged water bottles without expiry dates seized

Trichy: Food safety department staff seized four packaged drinking water cans that were found without expiry date in Pudukottai district on Tuesday.
Al-Hajee Aqua, a Pudukottai-based packaged drinking water company, which was supplying the cans, was booked under food safety and standards Act, 2006, for not registering their vehicle with the food safety department.
Every vehicle used for transporting foods material need to be registered with the food safety department. Officials from the food safety department intercepted the vehicle when they were supplying drinking water in the collector office premises on Tuesday. Designated officer from food safety department, Pudukkottai R Ramesh Babu said that the vehicle was summoned to the food safety office after it was found to be having cans without expiry dates.
“A total of four bubble top can with a capacity of 20liters were found without expiry dates. We have taken legal samples from those cans. A case was booked under section 58 of food safety and standards act, 2006 for registering the vehicle with food safety department,” he said.
Action will be initiated against the company if the water quality was not found within safety standards, he added.

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