The Commissioner of Food Safety has engaged a team in every district, including the representatives of the District Collector, the District Medical Officer, and the Food Safety Officer, to revisit those eateries and hotels which claimed to have complied with the 30-point guidelines for food safety and standards, issued by the Commissioner. The squads will revisit these eateries and hotels which had earlier been ordered to close during inspections by food safety officials for poor hygiene, to check if these were fit to be re-opened. The food safety officials had inspected 1,081 hotels/eateries across the State and had ordered 66 of these closed for not maintaining hygiene and food safety regulations. In Thiruvananthapuram, a squad led by District Food Safety Officer D. Sivakumar inspected the hotels while in Ernakulam, the inspections were led by a team led by Food Safety Officer K. Ajith Kumar. Of the 10 eateries which were revisited by the officials on Tuesday, only three were found to be complying with all the guidelines. Officials had recommended to the Commissioner of Food Safety that three establishments — Hotel Lakshmi, General Hospital Junction, Thiruvananthapuram; Kudumbasree Canteen, Museum Compound, Thiruvananthapuram; and Cochin Tourist Home, Nalanda Restaurant, at Ernakulam; be allowed to be reopened. Two establishments were ordered to be closed by officials in inspections held in the capital city on the day. These are Salkaram restaurant (inside Ananthapuri auditorium), Jagathy, and Hotel Amaravathi, Pulimoodu.
Source:http://www.thehindu.com
No comments:
Post a Comment