Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, Nov 01:
On the eve of upcoming Diwali festival, in order to provide good quality and non adulterated sweets to the public, A team of Food safety wing of Drugs and Food control organization Jammu headed by Dr Parvesh Kumar Assistant Commissioner food safety Jammu inspected various sweet shops, Bakery outlets, confectionery outlets at areas of High court road Janipur, main stop Janipur, Naibasti, Gandhi nagar, Digiana and Nanak nagar Jammu.
During the drive, Gokul sweets shop, Parkash Di Hatti, A V sweets shop, Bikaner sweet shop, Agarwal sweets manufacturer, Sain ji Di Hatti, Rattan tea stall and vaishno dhaba at Janipur, high court road Janipur and lakad mandi, Bansi Di Hatti and Premier bakes at industrial area Digiana were challaned under section 56 of food safety and standards Act 2006 as they were manufacturing the sweets under insanitary and unhygienic conditions.
Moreover, samples of suspicious food items such as Rasgullas, channa murgi, dahi, patisa, chocolate, ladoo, Burfi, Toda Burfi, malai Burfi were also lifted from Nav durga sweets at Digiana, Shri Anand Bhog at Naibasti, Chib sweets at Nanak nagar and Ganpati sweets (Nathus) at Gandhi nagar Jammu and sent to the food testing laboratory for detecting adulteration.
During the inspections, the food business activities of Gokul sweets, Parkash Di Hatti, Bikaner sweets, Sain ji Di Hatti at Janipur and Bansi Di Hatti at Naibasti were stopped as the infrastructures of their work shops were not satisfactory and found in insanitary conditions. 520 kg of sweets was destroyed on spot as the Same manufactured and stored under insanitary conditions.
All the shopkeepers were asked to maintain the personal hygiene and maintain dress code and use good quality of raw material and store the food at optimum temperature.
Food safety officers Daleep singh, Hans Raj Andorra, Ajay Khajuria and Pervaiz Ahmed were the members of team.
