Rajesh Gupta
Jammu, Aug 9: Last week JKUT was shocked over seizing of expired fish and chicken, which would have been practice of such establishment for supplying slow poison to general public, may have caused serious health hazards to small children & elders with quick effects but were non known to govt as departments meant to check quality were sleeping.
Now after actions by Dr Abid Rashid, Secretary Health, departments woke & started inspections following which rotten & expired food items were seized, which were to be consumed by general public & may have caused causality's by consuming such rotten items in kind of various diseases?
However, following raids in valley, over 2700 kgs of expired fish and chicken were seized and subsequently destroyed in a joint inspection by Legal Metrology Department and Food Safety Department here on Saturday, officials said, prompting the registration of three separate cases against the erring shopkeepers.
The recovery of 27 quintals of expired frozen food comes days after a rotten-meat scandal has shaken consumers in Kashmir where authorities have destroyed more than 3500 kgs of adulterated varieties of meat over the past week.
A challan under section 56 along with improvement notice under section 32 was also recommended against the shopkeepers for storing the frozen food in the most unhygienic condition and in violation of the provisions of the food safety and standards.
He said all the seized material was destroyed with proper SOP along with a team of Jammu Municipal Corporation at dumping station Kotbhalwal in the outskirts of the city.
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