KOLKATA: A Kolkata Municipal Corporation health department team conducted a two-day special drive to check quality of food at some central Kolkata restaurants, food joints at a mall and a couple of reputable star hotels located off Eastern Metropolitan. The drive that was launched on Tuesday was part of a food safety exercise before pujas.
According to sources in the KMC health department though the civic food inspectors did not find adulteration in food collected from the star hotels, three food joints at the mall located off EM Bypass were asked to upgrade their bakery products and the quality of cooked food being sold there.
The civic team on Tuesday warned owner of a restaurant on Park Street against upkeep of its kitchen. “We found the kitchen of the restaurant on Park Street to be unclean and unhygienic. We have asked the owner to upgrade the kitchen with immediate effect or else we may have to take punitive steps,” said a KMC health department official.
The KMC team of food inspectors are also readying for a drive against food stalls and sellers of soft drinks in front of city’s major puja pandals. “We will undertake a special drive against quality of food to be served from the food stalls and soft drinks in front of city’s major puja pandals. We will arrange for a speedy test of these food to be collected and take steps against adulteration in food and soft drinks,” a KMC health department official said.
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