CURATED BY – GUARAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, a meeting of the district level committee of the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department was convened in the Collectorate auditorium under the chairmanship of District Magistrate Dr. Dinesh Chandra. In the meeting, District Magistrate Dr. Dinesh Chandra Singh directed that the availability and quality of safe food and beverages should be ensured to the general public under the provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 and related rules 2011. He said that ensure cleanliness by checking the kitchens of hotels. DM Dr. Dinesh Chandra said that effective enforcement action based on surveillance and intelligence should be ensured on adulterated food items and beverages. The cases should be resolved by effectively pleading the pending cases in the Hon'ble Court, Adjudicating Officer, Saharanpur and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate First, Saharanpur. The fine amount should be recovered by 30th June. Food license and registration is mandatory for doing food business, therefore all food traders should be covered under license and registration. Salary of inspectors who do not meet the registration target will be stopped. Food traders should be made aware about Food Safety Act through camps and regular inspections. District Magistrate Dr. Dinesh Chandra directed that food traders and manufacturers should be made aware about fortified food (milk, oil, rice, flour, salt) and compliance should be ensured. Re-used cooking oil should be checked on the spot through the program Dom Apparatus prescribed by FSSAI. Under the program Ruco (Re-used cooking oil) prescribed by FSSAI, the provision of giving the remaining portion of the oil used three times by the food businessman to the biodiesel company should be implemented. Awareness programs should be organized in schools by giving information about safe food and beverages to children and action should be taken for survey sample of the food being prepared under the Mid-Day-Meal Scheme. The department should conduct sample survey of the food items being distributed by ICDS under the public distribution system from time to time. On this occasion, Chief Development Officer Sumit Rajesh Mahajan, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sanjeev Manglik and senior officers of the concerned departments were present.