Pointing out the loopholes in maintaining food safety measures, Deputy Commissioner H.R. Mahadev has directed health officers to pay adequate attention to the issue. He was presiding over a meeting of District Coordination Committee on Food Safety at his office here on Monday.
Shivashankar, Food Safety Officer, told the meeting that 314 of the 1,473 food outlets in Bidar taluk and 68 of the 825 outlets in Bhalki were registered.
Mr. Mahadev directed the officers to complete registration in all taluks. He asked the officers to speed up registrations in Humnabad, Basavakalyan and Aurad taluks that were far behind in the task.
The officers told the meeting that they had obtained nine unsafe food samples and imposed a fine of Rs. 92,000 on the outlets that had violated norms. They also said that taluk level squads were formed to monitor the implementation of food safety norms.
Tahsildars from different taluks, District Health and Family Welfare officer M.M. Jabbar, officers Anil Chinthamani, Indumathi Patil, Mallikarjun and D.S. Hawaldar and others were present.
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