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Chhattisgarh: Food department raids sweet shops, seize samples

RAIPUR: Amid festive season, a team of Food and Drug department along with civic body officials conducted surprise inspections at sweet shops across Jagdalpur on Tuesday.

Jagdalpur Sub-Divisional Magistrate GR Markam informed that the action was taken on the instructions of the district collector for prevention of adulteration of sweets during the festive season. He said that the collected samples are being sent to the state food testing laboratory in Raipur for quality check. Strict action will be taken against the concerned sweet shops under Food Safety and Standards Act if any food material is found to be of substandard quality in the test.

As per officials, as many as three different team of food and drug administration, food department and municipal corporation conducted raids at various sweet shops across Jagdalpur district on Tuesday. The team collected samples of various food products including sweets, khoa and namkeens for testing during the raids.

A team constituted under the leadership of sub divisional magistrate GR Markam examined the factory of a sweets and snacks manufacturing company . During the raid, namkeen packets without manufacturer name and content of products on the packaging were seized. Keeping this in view, a case has been prepared under Section 52 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 against the concerned shop.

Similarly, a team constituted under the leadership of Food Safety Officer Zahira Khan raided another sweet shop. During the raid, the team took samples of various sweets including Besan Barfi, Lal Peda, Ras Malai, Chhena Kalakand, Gulab Jamun and Sonpapadi for quality check.

Another team formed under Food Safety Officer Chitralekha Kodopi conducted raid at a famous sweet shop. Samples of Khoa, Besan and Bundi were collected for quality check purpose.

Meanwhile, in wake of festive season, Bastar district collector Ayyaj Tamboli issued directions to conduct inspection of sweet shops to check quality of food.

FSSAI mandates safety audit for FBOs dealing in dairy, meat, other products

New Delhi, Aug 15 Food regulator FSSAI has made safety audit mandatory for licensed food business operators (FBOs) dealing in dairy, poultry, fish, eggs and meat and their products as well as food catering.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued an order mandating food safety audit of food businesses holding central licence and falling under high-risk categories.

The regulator has listed six food businesses under high-risk categories -- dairy products, meat and meat products, fish and fish products, egg and egg products, food for infant nutrition and prepared food (catering).

These food companies should get safety audit done by a recognised audit agency at intervals specified by the authority, the order said.