With summer reaching its peak, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s health department has swung into action to prevent food poisoning cases and water-borne diseases. As part of this exercise, the department carried out raids on mango traders on Wednesday and destroyed 874 kg of carbideripened mangoes.
Raids were carried out in all six zones of the city. The department also seized five kg of carbide.
Apart from unhealthy mangoes, the department destroyed 194 litre of unhygienic mango juice and served notices to 168 units. It recovered Rs57,950 as administrative charges from vendors indulged in trading of unhealthy mango and juice, said a statement issued by the AMC.
Similar, raids were carried out on street food market at Hatkeshwar, Soni Ni Chali and Nikol and destroyed 48 kilogram as well as 124 litre of inedible food stuff on Tuesday. It issued notices to 41 food vendors and collected Rs20,050 as administrative charges.
The department has destroyed 20417 kilogram unhealthy food products since April 1, 2014. The department has also collected 32 samples of food products from the city under Food Safety and Standard Act since April 1. Of these samples, five have turned out to be unfit or substandard, while results of 11 are yet to come out. The civic body will initiate actions in against people involved in manufacturing and trading of unfit products.
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