Aug 30, 2017
Insect in food infuriates customer
Complaint on social media to GHMC
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Tuesday received a complaint on unhygienic food being served in a high profile restaurant, from a customer who complained of finding a live insect in the ‘biryani’ being served by the hotel.
The customer, B.Kiran Goud, reportedly visited the restaurant ‘Ulavacharu’ in Jubilee Hills, along with his relative Shankar Goud on Tuesday afternoon and ordered for biryani along with mutton fry.
Recorded
“During second serving, we noticed that a live insect crawled out of the biryani, even as the captain who was serving us tried to remove it. We photographed and videographed it, so that we could prove our claim. Despite long wait, nobody from the restaurant turned up, and a captain-rank employee answered carelessly when questioned,” complained Mr.Kiran Goud.
They lodged a complaint with the Food Safety Wing of the GHMC by posting the images through social media application.
Complaint received
“We have received a complaint about unhygienic food, and will inspect the restaurant in a couple of days,” said in-charge Assistant Food Controller of the civic body Sudarshan Reddy.
When sought his version, owner of the upmarket restaurant Vijay Reddy refuted the customer’s charges and said that it was an attempt to malign the name of the restaurant.
Police raids hotels to check food adulteration
Personnel of the Commissioner’s Task Force cracked a whip against the persons involved in the preparation of adulterated food items like ice-creams and pickles in various parts of the town on Tuesday.
The Task Force police raided a popular hotel Shivas Biryani House and seized huge quantity of rotten and contaminated non-vegetarian food items - mutton and chicken and other materials used for preparation of biryani. The authorities seized the samples and sent them to food safety testing laboratory in Hyderabad and registered case against the hotel owner.
The police also raided ‘Quality Fun’ company in Ramnagar locality for the manufacture of adulterated ice-creams with cheap quality material for earning profits.
They also raided a house in Kothirampur locality and destroyed 5,000 kilograms of fungus infected pickles. The raids were conducted by Task Force Inspector Ghouse Baba, SIs Kiran, Santosh and Nagaraju, Food Inspector Amrutha Sri and others
Officials inspect hotel after finding lizard in vada
Officials attached to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) carried out inspection at a hotel in Thoothukudi, on Monday, after a lizard was found in a vada served in the hotel recently.
Lizard that was found in a vada in a hotel in Thoothukudi recently
Madurai:
The incident happened on Saturday night when one of the customers while eating a vada in the hotel, situated near Thoothukudi South Police station, found a lizard in it. Immediately, he raised the issue with the hotel management. The authorities immediately apologised to the customer.
The customer warned them that such carelessness can also cause death. Following that there was a minor tension at the hotel and vadas were not supplied to customers that night.
However, the issue was brought to the notice of the officials attached to FSSAI and a team headed by Thanga Vignesh, designated officer, FSSAI Thoothukudi district, carried out an inspection at the hotel. The officials found many irregularities during the inspection at the food outlet.
Speaking to DTNEXT, Thanga Vignesh said that while his team was carrying out inspection, the owner of the hotel accepted his mistake and said it a totally unexpected incident. “Never has such a thing happened before in our hotel,” said the owner.
However, the officials completed the inspection and seized the flour that was used to make the vadas. They sent it as a sample for further tests in the lab.
The FSSAI team also detected more lapses in the hygiene in the kitchen. The owner was directed to maintain better hygiene and cleanliness in the kitchen. According to the powers vested on them they had served a legal notice. Further action will be initiated against the hotel and the owner based on the results of the lab test, said Thanga Vignesh.
Surprise raids by Food safety team; Contraband tobacco products seized from various parts of city
Port Blair Aug 29: Continuing the strict action against illegal sale of contraband tobacco products, on 29/08/2017 a team of Food Safety Officials lead by the District Food Safety Officer, South Andaman conducted surprise raids in connection with storage and distribution of contraband tobacco products at Dairyfarm, Haddo, Junglighat, Bathu Basti, Garacharma, Aberdeen village wherein large quantities of contraband tobacco products were seized from Food Business Operators (FBOs). The details of the FBOs who premises were inspected, closed and sealed are Shri. K. Kannan, R/o Austinabad, Smti. Janakiamma, R/o Haddo, Smti. Panchavarnam, R/o Garacharma, Smti. T. Adilaxmi, R/o Garacharma, Shri. R.N. Bhakta, R/o Garacharma and Smti. Jagadeshwari, R/o Dairyfarm.
In another cases, Shri. B. Jeevan, R/o Haddo caught red handed with 485 pouches of Baghban 69 brand tobacco (each 40 gram) at Veer Savarkar International, Airport, Port Blair with the help of SB, CID, Port Blair and Shri. Mohmmed Firdose, R/o Round Basthi caught red handed by the Food Safety Officer with 80 pouches of Baghban 69 brand tobacco (each 40 gram) at Marina Park, Port Blair.
All the contraband tobacco items were seized under the appropriate section of the Act and legal proceedings are being initiated against the offenders under Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. Till now 30 premises have been sealed for the violation.
The Commissioner Food Safety have warned the travelers who are travelling from mainland to Port Blair by Air or by Ship should not carry the contraband tobacco products with them and also warned the Food Business Operators not to store/stock/display or sale any contraband tobacco products in their premises and storage area and if the enforcement staff on their inspection if found any contraband tobacco products, stringent action will be initiated against the errant FBOs including sealing of premises and cancellation of licenses.
All the general public is hereby requested to pass on contraventions found if any on food safety to the Commissioner of Food Safety, A&N Islands at No. 03192-231024/9434280018 or on District Control Room No. 1070 for strict actions against violators.
This is regarding continuing the strict action against illegal sale of contraband tobacco products, on 29/08/2017 a team of Food Safety Officials lead by the District Food Safety Officer, South Andaman conducted surprise raids in connection with storage and distribution of contraband tobacco products at Dairyfarm, Haddo, Junglighat, Bathu Basti, Garacharma, Aberdeen village wherein large quantities of contraband tobacco products were seized from Food Business Operators (FBOs). The details of the FBOs who premises were inspected, closed and sealed are Shri. K. Kannan, R/o Austinabad, Smti. Janakiamma, R/o Haddo, Smti. Panchavarnam, R/o Garacharma, Smti. T. Adilaxmi, R/o Garacharma, Shri. R.N. Bhakta, R/o Garacharma and Smti. Jagadeshwari, R/o Dairyfarm.
In another cases, Shri. B. Jeevan, R/o Haddo caught red handed with 485 pouches of Baghban 69 brand tobacco (each 40 gram) at Veer Savarkar International, Airport, Port Blair with the help of SB, CID, Port Blair and Shri. Mohmmed Firdose, R/o Round Basthi caught red handed by the Food Safety Officer with 80 pouches of Baghban 69 brand tobacco (each 40 gram) at Marina Park, Port Blair.
All the contraband tobacco items were seized under the appropriate section of the Act and legal proceedings are being initiated against the offenders under Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. Till now 30 premises have been sealed for the violation.
The Commissioner Food Safety have warned the travelers who are travelling from mainland to Port Blair by Air or by Ship should not carry the contraband tobacco products with them and also warned the Food Business Operators not to store/stock/display or sale any contraband tobacco products in their premises and storage area and if the enforcement staff on their inspection if found any contraband tobacco products, stringent action will be initiated against the errant FBOs including sealing of premises and cancellation of licenses.
All the general public is hereby requested to pass on contraventions found if any on food safety to the Commissioner of Food Safety, A&N Islands at No. 03192-231024/9434280018 or on District Control Room No. 1070 for strict actions against violators.
FSDA raids synthetic milk factory; 2 held
AGRA: A special squad of Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FSDA) on Tuesday raided a synthetic milk factory in Tundla near Bansidhar Degree Collegeand seized thousands of litres of spurious milk from the spot. Hydrogen peroxide and several other unidentified chemical adulterants were also found from there.
Earlier, FSDA had uncovered a major synthetic milk racket in which the accused were working in connivance with officials from the department and were using adulterants like hydrogen peroxide, detergent and urea for production. A team of FSDA, Agra district administration and police had conducted a raid at three houses in Kukhreliya village on May 25 this year and had seized adulterants in large quantities. The team had arrested a woman manufacturing synthetic milk and an FIR was registered against five people.
FSDA assistant commissioner Vineet Kumar, who headed Tuesday's raid, said, "We had got a tip-off regarding a synthetic milk factory being run in Tundla. Acting on that information, we formed a joint team of FSDA officials, Firozabad district administration and police, and raided the factory premises. The information was found to be true and we arrested two persons from the factory."
Now, free-of-cost milk testing facility
Collector S Natarajan launching the testing unit in Ramanathapuram.
Consumers can check quality of milk; available in the district till September 6
Close on the heels of the labour department installing a weighing machine for the public to check underweight, the district unit of the Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug Administration Department has made available an electronic milk adulteration testing (EMAT) unit to check the quality of milk.
Launching the facility at a special camp at the municipality here on Monday, Collector S Natarajan said consumers could check the quality of milk free of cost at the computerised automation machine. In case of adulteration, they could lodge complaints with the food cell officer. The District Revenue Officer, who is the adjudicating officer, would act on the complaints and initiate necessary action.
The district became the second in the State, after Madurai, to make the facility available to the general public. The machine would be available in the district till September 6, he said and appealed to the public to make the best of it. The consumers could give 300 ml of milk and test the solid, solid not fat (SNF), density, sucrose (sugar in milk) and other chemical substances, if any, in the milk.
Food safety officials would help them to match the quality of the milk they had purchased for their daily use with the prescribed parameters for fat, SNF, density and sucrose. All classes of cow and buffalo milk could be tested, Dr. M.J.C. Bose, district designated officer, Food Cell, said.
EMAT would be available for testing in Kilakarai (covering Thirupullani block) on Tuesday and Paramakudi (covering Bogalur and Nainarkoil blocks) on Wednesday.
On September 1, the machine would be available in Kamudhi for the benefit of people in Mudukulathur and Kadaladi blocks, and on September 4 in Rameswaram. On September 6, EMAT would be available in RS Mangalam before it would be taken to other districts, he said.
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