VISAKHAPATNAM: Visakhapatnam district, with a population of over 40 lakh and city population of around 22 lakh has only one food security officer (FSO).
Three other sanitary inspectors from the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation’s (GCMC) health wing have placed under deputation to double up as FSOs, official sources said on Wednesday.
The statistics comes in contrast with the World Health Organisation guidelines according to which every 50,000 population should have one FSO and every one lakh rural population should be placed under one FSO.
Ideally, there should be 44 FSOs for the city and over 20 FSOs for the rural areas of the district.
Among the five southern states, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have the lowest number of FSOs. AP has just 32 for its 13 districts and Telangana even less. Despite five sanctioned FSO posts for each district, none of them have been filled up.
The last recruitment exam for FSOs was held in the undivided state over a decade ago. The food safety and inspecting officials do not have an official vehicle and use public transport to carry out raids.
AP does not even have a state food laboratory of its own. The FSOs have to send samples for lab test to the only authorised food safety lab at Nacharam in Hyderabad, that again is severely short-staffed.
T Satyanarayana, the president of AP Hotels Association, Visakhapatnam chapter, said, “We have around 400 hotels and restaurants registered with us. However, there would be another 400-500 unregistered hotels and restaurants in the district — that is at least 1,000 hotels and restaurants.”
Besides, there are thousands of push cart vendors, fast food centres and bandis, which are not registered or counted.
M Srinivasa Rao, the assistant food controller and designated food safety officer (FSO), Visakhapatnam district, said, “The district would roughly have 20,000-25,000 outlets selling some kind of edible item including fruit sellers and small roadside hawkers but till date there has not been any survey done to ascertain the exact number of eateries. Only a small part of them are under registered associations. Working with just one FSO and three sanitary inspectors on deputation, we are doing our best. Recruiting manpower is under process and we hope to get more staff soon.”
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