Dec 8, 2017
On-the-spot food safety tests by Sun
Panaji: A four-wheeler called 'food safety on wheels', with instruments that allow for on-the-spot food safety tests, will be launched on Sunday by chief minister Manohar Parrikar, health minister Vishwajit Rane said on Thursday. Rane said the vehicle, to be operated by the food and drugs administration (FDA), has been acquired at a cost of Rs 41 lakh, with funds provided by the central government.
"Goa was the first state to acquire the 'food safety on wheels'. It is fully equipped, and can test water, collect food samples at eateries for tests. The result can be obtained within 15 minutes," said Rane.
Food Safety Department satisfied with the quality of 'aravana and appam prasadam' of Sabarimala
ALAPPUZHA: Food Safety Department is satisfied with the test result of food samplesespecially the famous "aravana and appam prasadam" being supplied to the devotees at Sabarimala.
Speaking to TOI, Food Safety Commissioner Veena N Madhavan said that they have tested 31 samples of aravana and -48 samples of appam and the analysis reports of above samples show that all are satisfactory. We are completely satisfied with the test result of those samples. The sample results of aravana and appam are completely satisfactory , she said.
"We have also collected the 114 food items various samples from various parts of Sabarimala and they were subjected for detailed analyze . We have collected 82 cane jaggery powder samples and 81 samples are satisfactory. We have collected 16 samples of red rose rice and 16 are satisfactory,'' she said.
Two mobile food testing labs stationed and made operational at Nilackal and Erumeli to test the drinking water supplied to pilgrims. This lab is equipped to conduct tests on milk, oil, packaged drinking water, food colours, common adulterants and spices. Through these units, 24 tests can be conducted on milk, nine on edible oil, 17 on spices and 11 on other foods to check for adulterants.
The department has taken steps to conduct periodic quality analysis of the drinking water supplied by the Kerala Water Authority, Travancore Devaswom Board and the Ayyappa Seva Sangham. Food Safety Officers are actively involved in the sampling of raw materials used for "Annadhanam" provided by the Devaswom Board at Nilackal, Pamba and Sabarimala temple Sannidhanam. The samples so collected are sent to the District Food Testing Laboratory at Pathanamthitta for analysis,'' she said.
The food safety commissioner said that devotees were free to contact her department through two toll-free numbers (8592999666 & 18004251125).
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