Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 29 : Ahead of festival season, Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has started a major anti-adulteration drive in the city. Team of Health Officials are being daily deputed to different markets to ensure quality products and sold to consumers.
Continuing its drive against the menace of adulteration especially in milk & milk products, in view of forth coming festival season, a team of Jammu Municipal corporation comprising Health Officer, Municipal Veterinary Officer alongwith other staff, continuously inspecting various milk shops as well as milk vendors in the City especially in the areas of Channi Himmat, Gandhi Nagar, Narwal, Railway area, Panama Chowk, Jewel, Shastri Nagar, Sanjay Nagar etc. During the drive JMC also sealed two well known establishments of the city, "M/S Mahajan Sweet Shop & Namkeen" & "M/S Mahajan Sweet Shop" Canal Road, Jammu on Friday, which were functioning without the necessary licenses required for such Eating Houses.
"We randomly check the quality of the eatables being selling in the shops in Jammu, throughout the year, but during the festive season, we made it a routine work on daily basis," said Dr. Vinod Sharma, Health Officer, JMC.
"We are regularly collecting the samples and sending it to lab for quality testing, but if we find someone selling eatables in unhygienic condition, we destroy the eatable and fine them on the spot," he added.
The shopkeepers dealing with food items are strictly warned and directed to ensure supply of good quality of food to the general public especially milk and milk products and obtain necessary license from the Municipal Corporation Jammu.
The shopkeepers use to add more sugar or basan in sweets to make more profit during the festive season, when the consumption of sweets is more. The department has a sharp eye on the sweets shops of the city, whose sale is above Rs. 12 Lakhs per year.
A joint team of Food Safety officers & Municipal Veterinary Officer, today inspected prominent sweetshops selling milk, milk shops as well as milk vendors in the area of Kunjwani, Channi Himat, Satwari, Nanak Nagar, Rehari Colony, Janipur etc. About 2100 litre of milk was checked and the quality of milk was found in satisfactory conditions in maximum tests, no urea deducted in any tests. Rs. 12,400/- was also realised from defaulters.
Besides this, four samples of Milk, Milk Product & Sweat items i.e. Rasgulla, Khoya, Burfi, Milk Cake were also lifted from prominent sweetshops within the limits of JMC and sent to Food Analyst, Public Health Lab. for ascertaining their standard of purity.
The health Officer also appealed the shopkeepers not to add color in the sweets, and consumers should also not buy sweets which are more colorful. |
