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| Food Safety Deptt declares PDS rice ‘unsafe, substandard’ | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Anantnag, Nov 2: The Food Safety and Standards Department has declared the PDS rice, which was being distributed in Anchidoora locality of Anantnag town, unsafe and substandard.
The Food Safety and Standards Department had lifted the sample from a Fair Price Shop in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district in the month of September this year. In its reports, the Food Analyst of Kashmir, Mufti Imtiyaz Ahmad Farooqi said that the sample doesn’t conform to the standards prescribed for milled rice.
“Sample contained live and dead insects, rodent hair and rodent contamination which is contravention of section 3(zz) (ii) (ix) of Food Safety and Standards Act 2006,” reads the report, a copy of which lies with Early Times.
“Hence the sample is declared as Substandard and Unsafe,” the report in its conc uding paragraph reads.
At first, the distribution low inferior quality of rice among the people was highlighted by this newspaper back in the month of September and was brought into the notice of senior officials of Anantnag.
Following the expose, the Food Safety department lifted samples of PDS rice from the Fair Price Shop of Shabir Ahmad Itoo, a resident of Anchidoora. Earlier, Fair Price Shop owner told Early Times that he took up the matter with the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) department but they took no steps to lift the low quality food grains.
After receiving the test report, the Food Safety department has sought more information from the FCS&CA department which they said is awaited.
Last month, people at multiple locations in Kashmir complained that they were receiving low quality food grains. |
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