To check supply of adulterated sweets and milk items during the festive season, the six teams from the Department of Food Safety keep conducting special checking drives for the past many days. Around 40 manufacturing units have been served notices by the teams in Dehradun district. Six teams have been deployed in the district to inspect manufacturing units of sweets and shops to check the purity of the items prepared by them, said Dehradun Food Safety officer Anoj Kumar Thapliyal said on Monday.
Thapliyal said he had chalked out a plan for festive season and department officials kept conducting drive from October 13 in various manufacturing units of sweets and shops.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 is enforced on all the food business undertakings- profit, non-profit, public and private- carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of manufacture, processing, packaging, storage, import, sale, transportation and distribution of food. The officials are monitoring preparation techniques and also keeping a close watch over hygiene and precautions maintained by the manufacturers. The officials have been directed to take samples of milk and the by- products which are usually in great demand during the festive season.
During the festive season, the officers are deployed at different places like Vikasnagar Sahaspur, Chakrata, Doiwala, Dehradun city and Rishikesh. Around 40 manufacturing units have been served notices by the teams in Dehradun district.
After collecting sampling, food items will be sent to Food and Drug Testing Laboratory (FDTL), Rudrapur.
Thapliyal further said that last year, the department had collected 70 samples of food items from the restaurants, dairies, shops and other manufacturing units in the district, out of which around 30 samples were found unsafe or sub-standard or misbranded or containing extraneous matter. The cases are now pending before the court. The penalty is being imposed on the food business operators who manufacture articles of food, defying the rules that are in force.
Meanwhile, Dehradun food safety officials seized around 2.5 Quintal Mawa from a car coming from Muzzafarnagar to Dehradun on Monday. Ramkumar, the owner of the car, is being questioned. Sample has been collected for further probe, said the officials.
Thapliyal said he had chalked out a plan for festive season and department officials kept conducting drive from October 13 in various manufacturing units of sweets and shops.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 is enforced on all the food business undertakings- profit, non-profit, public and private- carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of manufacture, processing, packaging, storage, import, sale, transportation and distribution of food. The officials are monitoring preparation techniques and also keeping a close watch over hygiene and precautions maintained by the manufacturers. The officials have been directed to take samples of milk and the by- products which are usually in great demand during the festive season.
During the festive season, the officers are deployed at different places like Vikasnagar Sahaspur, Chakrata, Doiwala, Dehradun city and Rishikesh. Around 40 manufacturing units have been served notices by the teams in Dehradun district.
After collecting sampling, food items will be sent to Food and Drug Testing Laboratory (FDTL), Rudrapur.
Thapliyal further said that last year, the department had collected 70 samples of food items from the restaurants, dairies, shops and other manufacturing units in the district, out of which around 30 samples were found unsafe or sub-standard or misbranded or containing extraneous matter. The cases are now pending before the court. The penalty is being imposed on the food business operators who manufacture articles of food, defying the rules that are in force.
Meanwhile, Dehradun food safety officials seized around 2.5 Quintal Mawa from a car coming from Muzzafarnagar to Dehradun on Monday. Ramkumar, the owner of the car, is being questioned. Sample has been collected for further probe, said the officials.
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