Food safety department officials check the water at a 'herbal water' unit at Koyambedu on Saturday.
Chennai: The
food safety and standards authority of India department officials on
Saturday sealed 14 herbal water units in the city. The move comes in the
wake of a recent order from the National Green Tribunal to regulate
unauthorised water units.
“The herbal water units at
Arumbakkam, Koyambedu, Kosapet, Tondiarpet and West Mambalam were closed
following the NGT order,” said a food safety official. The shops were
selling herbal and flavoured water which were not found to be purified
up to standards.”
“These units did not have ISI certificates or
any proper licence to run. They did not obtain the no-objection
certificate from the food safety department. The
standard of the water sold at these points were not herbal or tested in
labs and, hence, consumers could contract infections. Except for these
14 herbal water units, the other 13 units functioning in the city were
found to have proper documents and were following safety norms,” the
official added.
The shops were served notice last month. As
the units failed to respond to the show-cause notice, they were sealed.
The closed units could resume operations only after getting licence and
ensure that the safety parameters were in place, the official informed.
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