Port Blair, Feb 20: Ensuring availability of safe & whole some food to each & every citizen is the duty of the state. To achieve this, collection of food samples and its analysis for the compliance of law is a mandatory requirement. In the absence of Food Analyst & functional laboratory in A&N Islands this requirement was not exercised for last several years but now the Govt. of India has notified several accredited laboratories for this purpose and as a result any suspected sample of food article can be analysed.
The Food Safety department of this Administration has started this exercise and shall continue to lift samples of suspected food articles. Hence all Food Business Operators are requested to cooperate.
Further, it is brought to the notice of all consumers, NGOs and Consumer Organisations that they can also collect samples of food articles and send it for analysis to any notified laboratories and if the sample is found to be adulterated/misbranded or not within the norms, the entire expenditure towards collection & analysis shall be reimbursed to them and legal action shall also be initiated against vendors. For any assistance please contact the Food Safety department which is functioning in the Directorate of Health Services.
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