PANAJI: Health minister Vishwajit Rane said Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Churchill Alemao is trying to create panic among people asking them not to eat fish till August 15. On Monday, Alemao urged people to refrain from consuming fish during fishing ban period due to formalin scare.
Urging people to ignore Alemao’s appeal, Rane said, “There is nothing to worry and fish available in the markets of Goa is safe for consumption. Food safety is the highest priority of my government. A monitoring system has been put in place. The government is very serious on the issue. It knows what is to be done.”
Talking about measures taken, he said random checks are conducted and samples collected for testing. A whole protocol has been laid down. It is mandated that fish has to be transported in insulated vehicles. The vehicles with inadequate documents but transporting fish are not to be allowed to enter the state, he said.
“Chief minister Pramod Sawant, deputy chief minister Vijai Sardesai and I, had a joint meeting to discuss this issue,” he said reacting to NCP's MLA's appeal.
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