Amritsar, July 30
The deadline for restaurants, eating outlets and grocery stores keeping food products to get registered under the Food Safety Act has been extended by another six months. Earlier deadline was August 4.
Amrit Lal Jain, vice-president, Bharatiya Udhyog Beopar Mandal, an all-India body of traders, said he has received a copy of the decision from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
He said a delegation of the BUBM had met Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in this regard in June.
Jain said the FSA was copied from the developed countries and implemented without keeping in view the domestic conditions. He said the country does not have adequate number of laboratories to test the quality of food. Claiming that the number of these labs was less than 100, Jain demanded that each district of the country must have at least one such lab.
Meanwhile, the Punjab Pradesh Beopar Mandal, the state unit under the BUBM, will hold agitation against the FSA on August 9 in the state, including Amritsar.
The deadline for restaurants, eating outlets and grocery stores keeping food products to get registered under the Food Safety Act has been extended by another six months. Earlier deadline was August 4.
Amrit Lal Jain, vice-president, Bharatiya Udhyog Beopar Mandal, an all-India body of traders, said he has received a copy of the decision from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
He said a delegation of the BUBM had met Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in this regard in June.
Jain said the FSA was copied from the developed countries and implemented without keeping in view the domestic conditions. He said the country does not have adequate number of laboratories to test the quality of food. Claiming that the number of these labs was less than 100, Jain demanded that each district of the country must have at least one such lab.
Meanwhile, the Punjab Pradesh Beopar Mandal, the state unit under the BUBM, will hold agitation against the FSA on August 9 in the state, including Amritsar.
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