According to officials, many food business operators and manufacturers were found violating sanitary guidelines under FSS act by the market checking teams constituted by Commissioner Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Kashmir and Jammu under the leadership of Deputy Commissioner Food Jammu and Deputy Commissioner Food Kashmir
“In Jammu, during the last 2 days, the team conducted inspections of the Manufacturing units Viz JK Food Industries opposite Kotbalwal Jail, M/s Dairy King Food Product Gharaota Block Kotbhalwal, M/S sunrise Bread Box Bakery Purkhoo, M/S quality Fruit Ice cream, Machine Domana, M/s Vaid Milk Products Pvt. Ltd. Gangyal, M/s J.K Oil Industries, Gangyal, M/s Sansar oil Mills, Sansar Dal Mills & Sansar Flour Mills, Gangyal,” they said in a statement.
It said that during the drive, it was observed that Jammu and Kashmir Food Industries opposite Kotbalwal Jail had no proper basic infrastructure as mandated under law for manufacturing of noodles (Dry) and accordingly food license issued in favour of the firm was suspended, and directed to stop the activities till proper infrastructure is put in place.
“Improvement Notices under section 32 of the FSS Act, 2006 & Challan under section 56 for manufacturing food articles under insanitary and unhygienic conditions have been issued to Manufacturing unit Viz M/S Dairy Kind Food Product, Gharota Block Bhalwal , M/S JK Oil industries, Gangyal, M/S sunrise Bread Box Bakery Purkhoo, M/s Vaid Milk Products Pvt. Ltd. Gangyal, Sansar Dal Mills & Sansar Flour Mills, Gangyal,” the statement said.
As per the officials, one of the Manufacturing Unit M/S Sansar Flour Mills, Gangyal who was found carrying the manufacturing process in unhygienic conditions and without mandatory FSSAI Food License was sealed on spot.
“During the Special drive 8 samples of various categories of food articles viz, Sewain, Frozen Dessert, Biscuits, Toned Dahi, Mustard Oil, Refined Soyabean Oil, Besan & Atta have been lifted and sent to the Food Laboratory for analysis,” they said.
Similarly, in Kashmir Division, during last two days, various food manufacturing units at Industrial Estate, Rangreth Budgam viz, Kashmir Dairy, Aqualite Waters, Aroma Sweets, Golden Sweets, Shaw & Shaw Foods, Royal Fast Food, Royal Bakery, Royal Sweets, Adfar Spices, Kanwal Spices, HR Spices and FIL Industries Ltd. were inspected by the team.
“A total of 7 Food Samples were lifted from various Food Business Establishments and were sent to Food testing Lab for analytical purposes,” the official statement said.
“The manufacturing process of M/S Royal Fast Foods was prohibited and stocks of snacks worth Rs. 6.00 lacs were seized from the said manufacturing unit. The license of M/s Aroma Sweets was suspended for a period of ten days with the direction to carry necessary renovation of the unit to meet sanitary parameters as mandated under the Act,” it said adding that improvement notices were issued to M/s Kashmir Dairy, M/s Aqualite Waters, M/s Adfar Spices, M/s Kanwal Spices and H.R Spices for rectification of packaging material and up-gradation of in-house testing labs and sanitary conditions and proper documentation.
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