May 28, 2018
Kerala: Food safety nod mandatory in school kitchens
DPI to ensure that all noon meal kitchens get registrations shortly.
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala State Child Rights Commission has made it clear that Food Safety Registration is mandatory for noon meal kitchens in schools. The Commission has asked the DPI to ensure that all noon meal kitchens get registrations within a short time. The Commission passed the order during the hearing of the food poisoning case at Thonnakkal LP School. The school kitchen did not have registration. The cooking staff at the school did not have medical fitness certificates. Raw materials used were also found to be sub-standard.
The Commission also asked the Assistant Education Officer and noon meal officer to visit all school kitchens and submit a report. The DPI should instruct school headmasters of all schools to ensure cleanliness in kitchens. It should also be ensured that food materials and water used for cooking were safe. All the cooks who prepare food should have medical fitness certificates.
Sources said that as per the guidelines of the union Human Resources Development ministry, Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) and School Management Committees (SMCs) should monitor the regularity and wholesomeness of the mid-day meal served to children, cleanliness in cooking and serving of the meal, timeliness in procurement of good quality ingredients, fuel, implementation of variety in menu so as to make it attractive to children and to ensure social and gender equity on a daily basis.
Meat samples collected from Salt Lake eateries
KOLKATA: Continuing with raids at restaurants and eateries in Salt Lake to look into the quality of food and collect meat samples, health officials from the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation inspected three popular food joints and restaurants close to City Centre mall.
The civic authorities collected stored meat samples from the food joints.
The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and Dum Dum municipality started conducting inspections at several eateries and restaurants in different parts of Salt Lake, Rajarhat and Dum Dum from second week of May to collect samples of stored meat.
Civic officials said that they have started the inspection following instructions by the state government.
Chicken and mutton samples that are stored and refrigerated for over a week at different eateries and restaurants are being collected.
“We have already sent the samples to the state government’s food safety laboratory for tests,” said Bidhannagar Corporation MMIC (Health) Pranay Roy said.
Civic officials said that strong action would be taken against the eateries and restaurants if any of the collected samples are found to be poor in quality.
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