FOOD MAY NOW BECOME SAFE IN KERALA


For quite sometime food makers in Kerala were looked free to prepare food and serve the public at their will and pleasure. Whether the served food was safe to eat or not was their last concern, at least for some of them. People of the state are surprisingly watching what is going around in a number of hotels. Finally people have come to know that there is a Food Safety Department in Kerala.

Though a beginning is being proclaimed strongly,  it is yet to be confirmed the contour of the activity area of the department. For over a week the Food Safety Department has conducted raids in about 2,000 hotels and restaurants across Kerala. Over 180 of them found to have been working without valid licence. Notices have been served over 630 for not maintaining proper hygiene and for sticking spoiled food. 159 samples have been collected from these shops and sent for testing. The team has also seized over 6 tonnes of rotten or formalin or other chemical laced fish. The team has so far conducted over 4,000 raids and being continued strongly. 

Kerala Vyapari Vyavasay Ekopana Samithi has come out strongly against the raid with the allegations that the team is torturing the shop owners. As per available data Kerala has 974 female and 913 male cancer patients per million. About 35,000 new cancer cases are reported every year. Adulterated, chemical-laced and stale food can also be one of the reasons for cancer.

Food Safety Department has to look into packed food, food related items, vegetables and fruits also in order to make the enquiry complete and result oriented. Print media have reported several times about adulteration in coconut oil. Adding waste mobile oil into coconut oil was a case reported. Another report said that in a pack of one litre coconut.oil only 20% was coconut oil and the remaining was other cleaned oil. The department may look into other area too.

K V George



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