BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Food and Drugs Administration (MPFDA) has once again failed to meet Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) deadline for submission of report.
The latest failure comes after food safety regulator asked state FDA to test items like chocolates, noodles, pastas, macaroni and similar products in the wake of Maggi controversy.
FSSAI request was received in the first week of June and states and Union Territories were asked to submit reports by June 19. Since then MP FDA has sent 47 items for testing.
"We have received test reports for 3 items (chocolates). They passed the surveillance test. We received some other reports but they were missing some components," said MPFDA joint controller Pramod Shukla.
MPFDA dependence on private laboratory also delayed reporting of tests for Maggie noodles. The test outsourced to an Indore-based private laboratory.
It had hit a roadblock, after the private laboratory did not have the required 'reagent' for testing.
Approximately, every sixth food sample was found of substandard quality in Bhopal in last two years. According to latest MPFDA report, about 15% of food samples drawn between 2013 and 2015 (February) in Bhopal were either unsafe or did not comply to standards set by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
It included milk and milk products, fast food, packaged mineral water, dal, mustard oil, papad among others. Officials took about 500 food samples to check if they were fit for consumption.
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