Vadodara: Officials of the food safety department of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) conducted an extensive checking drive of food outlets at Ratribazaar near the VUDA Circle. The night food market was started by the civic body itself and is operational till early hours.
In the first operation of its kind in the recent past, food safety officers swooped down on Ratribazaar and checked food outlets there. Till around 10pm, the officials had checked 20 food outlets and the condition in all of them was found unhygienic.
An official said that notices were issued to all the 20 outlets asking them to maintain hygienic conditions and they were warned that their food licences may be cancelled if they did not do so. VMC officials said that 150 kg of food items at the market were found unfit for consumption. These included both cooked food items as well as raw material.
According to sources, the civic body was also looking at checking food courts across the city in the coming days.
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