Jun 4, 2018
Insect found in Amul ice cream; FSSAI asks for report
Mumbai's Prabhe has posted a tweet from his handle - @prabhe_vishal - with a picture of the ice-cream and tagged the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) also in the tweet.
A citizen of Mumbai, Vishal Prabhe, has claimed that an insect was found in Amul ice-cream he bought in Mumbai last Wednesday. Prabhe has posted a tweet from his handle - @prabhe_vishal - with a picture of the ice-cream and tagged the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) also in the tweet.
“Hello all i am from Mumbai yesterday while eating Amul duetz raspberry ice cream found big insect inside pack almost i ate it. We give our kids to eat without checking because it brand @ceo_fssai @fsgindia @fssaiindia (Sic)”, Prabhe posted on Twitter
Hello all i am from Mumbai yesterday while eating Amul duetz raspberry ice cream found big insect inside pack almost i ate it. We give our kids to eat without checking because it brand @ceo_fssai @fsgindia @fssaiindia
Later, the FSSAI noticed the tweet by Prabhe and directed Amul to investigate the matter. The food authority also asked the Amul company to come up with a detailed report within five days.
Hello all i am from Mumbai yesterday while eating Amul duetz raspberry ice cream found big insect inside pack almost i ate it. We give our kids to eat without checking because it brand @ceo_fssai @fsgindia @fssaiindia pic.twitter.com/GXqukavaYm
@Amul_Coop You are requested to look into the matter and submit fact finding report to the complainant under intimation to @fssaiindia and @prabhe_vishal within 5 days.
When India TV Digital team contacted Vishal, he informed that a team of officials from Amul had visited his place and expressed regret on the entire episode.
However, Vishal expressed unhappiness and said that he wasn't still satisfied.
Caterers to be FDA certified for food safety
Food and Drug Administration, Goa in collaboration with Envirocare Labs, Pune, conducted a training programme for the catering fraternity recently. The programme was inaugurated by Jyoti Sardesai, director, FDA-Goa and Nilesh Amritkar, managing dirtector, Envirocare. Around 40 catering firms participated in the training held at the conference hall, FDA office, Bambolim
As per the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, it is mandatory for every food operator to have the services of at least one certified personnel for every twenty five employees trained under the Food Safety Training and Certification Scheme of FSSAI. In order to fulfil this requirement FSSAI had identified certain training partners to perform the task of which Envirocare is one of the partners.
The certificates for the training programme will be generated through the online system, which will be valid for two years and thereafter every participant will have to undergo refresher training for further renewal of certificate.
The FDA has asked all food operators to enrol for the training at the earliest as the deadline set for the completion of the mandatory training and certification is December 31, 2018. An upcoming training sessionto to be held in the last week of June 2018 will focus on packaged drinking water and beverage manufacturers.
Rs 15 Lakh worth banned tobacco products seized in Trichy
TRICHY: The Thottiyam police personnel and food safety department officials have seized Rs 15 lakh worth banned tobacco products from a private godown in Viswas Nagar locality near Palpannai here on Sunday. Food safety department officials have collected samples from the seized tobacco products and sent them for laboratory inspection.
Thottiyam police said that on May 27, a truck heading to Trichy from Bengaluru was said to be stolen after a gang of eight men intercepted and assaulted the truck driver near Manamedu. Subsequently, the driver of stolen truck V Kumar lodged a complaint with Thottiyam police. A day later, the police recovered the stolen vehicle abandoned near Jeeyapuram. Though the complainant claimed that the truck was carrying health drink, the police during investigation suspected that the truck perhaps would have transported banned tobacco products. As the inquiry led a team of police to a private godown near Viswas Nagar, Thottiyam police on Sunday recovered Rs 15 lakh worth banned tobacco products stocked in 22 bundles.
As food safety department officials were alerted, samples were taken from the seized tobacco products to ascertain their nature. “Chewable tobacco, pan masala, and two other types of tobacco banned through Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 were recovered from the godown. It may take 20 days to disclose the results of the samples collected,” a food safety department official said.
Drive from June 15 to check hygiene at roadside eateries
Venders sell street food in Patna on Sunday
PATNA: The state food safety department is going to launch a special monsoon food safety drive from June 15 to keep a check on hygiene at different food joints, roadside eateries, hotels and restaurants across the city.
“From June 15 onwards, a drive will be conducted at roadside stalls to check waterborne diseases like cholera, diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal ailments caused by contaminated water, food and unhygienic surroundings at these places,” principal secretary (health) Sanjay Kumar, who is also the food safety commissioner, told this newspaper on Sunday.
“All the food stalls in the city with annual turnover of more than Rs12 lakh will have to get themselves registered with food safety department. Moreover, licence will be made mandatory for all such food joints in the wake of increasing adulteration and hygiene-related threats,” he said.
Elaborating about the drive, Kumar said, “Food samples will be collected from various shops. In case of violation of safety norms, licence of shops will be temporarily suspended. Besides, fines will be imposed in accordance with the gravity of offence. Our major focus will be to trace down the busiest localities where the number of roadside stalls is quite large, such as Maurya Lok and outside Patna Junction.”
However, he added, “The task of conducting this drive is enormous as the city has thousands of roadside stalls and eateries and the department has very few staff.”
Talking about the harm of eating roadside food during monsoon, Dr Ravi Kirti of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Patna said, “The growth of bacteria is very fast during monsoon. Some of the commonly found pathogens in street foods are Staphylococcus aureus, which causes vomiting, mild fever and appetite loss, a species of salmonella that causes food poisoning and inflammation of gastrointestinal tract and bacillus cereus that causes vomiting and diarrhoea.”
Karuna Saini, who was spotted at a food stall near Boring Road intersection, said, “I enjoy eating street food, but I am very specific about the places where I eat. I make sure that the stall or ‘thela’ has hygienic surrounding and cleanliness.”
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