Oct 8, 2017
தீபாவளி பலகாரம் தயாரிப்பு: கண்காணிக்க வலியுறுத்தல்
பள்ளிபாளையம்: 'தீபாவளிக்கு தயாரிக்கப்படும் இனிப்பு, கார வகைகளை, உணவு பாதுகாப்பு அதிகாரிகள் கண்காணிக்க வேண்டும்' என, கோரிக்கை எழுந்துள்ளது. தீபாவளியை முன்னிட்டு, இனிப்பு மற்றும் கார வகைகள் தயாரிப்பு பணி தீவிரமாக நடந்து வருகிறது. உணவு பொருட்கள் தயாரிக்கும்போது, பின்பற்ற வேண்டிய நடைமுறைகள் ஏராளமாக உள்ளன. குமாரபாளையம் தாலுகாவில், தனியார் மண்டபம், கடை, பேக்கரிகளில் தீபாவளி இனிப்பு, காரம் ஆகியவற்றை தயாரித்து விற்பனை செய்வர். இனிப்பு தயாரிக்கும்போது, செயற்கை நிற வண்ணங்களை கலக்கின்றனர். தற்காலிமாக தீபாவளிக்கு மட்டும் இனிப்பு, காரம் தயாரிப்பவர்கள், பெரும்பாலானோர் உணவு பாதுகாப்பு விதிமுறையை சரியாக கடைப்பிடிப்பதில்லை.
எனவே, உணவு பாதுகாப்பு அதிகாரிகள் ஆய்வு செய்து நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க வேண்டும் என, கோரிக்கை எழுந்துள்ளது. இதுகுறித்து, உணவு பாதுகாப்பு அதிகாரிகள் கூறுகையில், 'இனிப்பு, காரம் உள்பட உணவு பொருட்கள் தயாரிக்க, உணவு பாதுகாப்பு துறையில் அனுமதி வாங்க வேண்டும். தீபாவளி சமயத்தில் தயாரித்தாலும் அனுமதி வாங்க வேண்டும். அரசு அனுமதி பெற்ற, அளவுள்ள செயற்கை வண்ணம் மட்டும் பயன்படுத்த வேண்டும்' என்றனர்.
KFC launches ‘Clean Street Food’ program
Coimbatore Oct 8:
In a pioneering initiative for the QSR industry, KFC India launched a street food vendor training program.
This is based on the framework of“Clean Street Food” campaign of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and the Food Safety Authority of Tamil Nadu.
As part of KFC’s Social Commitment, this initiative is aimed at capability building amongst the unorganized sector which will disseminate content of FSSAI’s “Clean Street Food” campaign, available in public domain.
Commissioner of Food Safety and Drug administration P Amudha inaugurated the training for street food vendors by lighting the traditional lamp.
In the first phase of the project, KFC will be training 500 street food vendors in Chennai, as part of KFC’s training initiatives in Food Safety over the next 5 months.
Talking about the initiative Rahul Shinde, Managing Director, KFCIndia said,“We consider food safety as a shared responsibility amongst food regulators and industry players. Through this initiative we hope to contribute to the larger objective of ensuring health, hygiene and safety standards for consumers.
As part of the first phase of the initiative, we are looking at training 500 street vendors in Chennai over the next 5 months.”
Chennai: Sweet making units under food safety scanner
Food safety department is all set to ensure hygienic and safe manufacture of food items as per the food safety standards, ahead of Deepavali.
CHENNAI: Food safety department is all set to ensure hygienic and safe manufacture of food items as per the food safety standards, ahead of Deepavali. Food safety officer is to grant advisory to sweets manufacturing units on the standards of food to be maintained during the festive season. The advisory will be followed by an inspection at all sweets manufacturing units to check for adulteration and hygiene maintenance, said officials. Sensitive areas that witness temporary sweet manufacturing establishments in North Chennai are under special scanner this year.
“An advisory for all sweet manufacturers in the city, to maintain the food safety standards will be issued next week. It is mostly temporary sweet manufacturing units that mushroom during festive season and do not maintain the quality of food, which leads to food poisoning and other diseases. Several areas in North Chennai like Sowcarpet, Royapettah, Avadi and also T Nagar have been identified to conduct special check at all units ahead of Deepavali,” said Dr R. Kathiravan, designated officer, food safety department.
Besides regular check on adulteration of raw materials such as milk, ghee, oil and flours, personal hygiene of the workers will also be inspected. “Last year, it was found during the inspection that working in high temperatures, workers fail to maintain proper hygiene and clean working environment. Such issues will be kept under inspection this year,” he added.
Officials from the food safety department said that advisory shall focus on usage of colours in sweets. Manufacturers should only use approved colours less than 100 ppm along with good quality of raw materials, milk, ghee and oil for preparing sweets. The packaging of milk sweets should be done separately from other sweets, as they do not last longer.
Ravindra Jadeja’s restaurant in Rajkot raided, inedible and stale food found
This is the second time that Jaddu's Food Field has faced action from the RMC.
The health department of Rajkot Municipal Corporation conducted a raid on a restaurant (Jaddu’s Food Field) run by cricketer Ravindra Jadeja’s sister Naynaba in the city on Friday.
Led by Pankaj Rathod, medical officer of the RMC, a team of health officials from the civic body raided the restaurant located on Kalavad Road and went on a thorough inspection of its kitchen, storeroom, and other areas. Post inspection, the team found stale food, rotten vegetables, and other items in the restaurant and destroyed it.
“We found that they had stored the stale food on which fungus had grown in the freezer. Some vegetable were also found rotten and the raw food items were not stored as per standards mandated by Food Safety and Standards Act. Therefore, we destroyed some item on the spot,” Rathod told The Indian Express.
The health officers destroyed 17 kilograms of rotten vegetables, seven kilograms of pasta, 14 kg of bakery products like bread etc, nine kilograms of dough, four kilograms of stale chutneys, four kilograms of boiled but stale potatoes and poori, 1.5 kg of edible colours and 500 grams of noodles.
“We have issued the restaurant a notice asking it to take corrective measures and file a report with the RMC in four days. If they don’t reply to the notice in due time, the RMC has the power to cancel the license of the restaurant,” Rathod further added.
This is the second time that Jaddu’s Food Field has faced action from the RMC. Around three years ago, the health department of the civic body had collected samples of food items from the restaurant after receiving complaints. But no punitive action was taken at that time.
Spurious products on the rise
Ludhiana: Be careful of spurious food products in this festive season.
Eight samples of food items and ingredients, collected by the health department in September, were found to be of substandard quality and using fake brands.
The department had collected 160 food samples last month, out of which it has received results of only 30 samples so far.
Out of the failed samples, products including edible salt, mustard oil, cassia, milk cake, dal mungi were found to be using labels of popular brands illegally. Samples of chutney, curd and dhesi ghee were found to be of substandard quality.
Dr Andesh Kang, district health officer, said, "We will send notice where the samples failed. They have to apply for rechecking within a month. And in case they don't reply to our notice, we file a court case."
She said, "We keep shops under scanner and conduct surprise rechecks in the future too."
Food safety officer Yogesh Goal said, "At least 35% of samples fail in the district. Ahead of festive season, adulteration cases increase which is why we go strict in our checking."
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