BMC squads destroy 50kg stale food in eateries
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Bhubaneswar: Food inspection squads of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday destroyed 50 kg of stale and contaminated food during checking of several hotels and restaurants in the city.
The drive was carried out in view of jaundice and diarrhoea cases being reported from several areas.
The inspection was carried out at Chandrasekharpur and IRC Village, from where multiple samples were taken for laboratory testing. Some food items, which had gone stale and were stored in unhygienic conditions were destroyed.
"The surprise food quality inspection has been on since diarrhoea cases were reported in the city and it will continue.
On Saturday, a penalty of Rs 8,000 was imposed on three hotels. They were warned not to serve stale food. If the hotels repeat the practice of serving stale food, they will be slapped with closure notices along with a penalty," said designated food safety officer Satyajit Patel.
The Sanitation and Hygiene Inspection for Neat Environment (SHINE) team and food enforcement squad of BMC are carrying out the inspections.
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The SHINE team was formed in Aug last year to provide more teeth to sanitation enforcement.
Earlier, the inspection teams checked eateries at Unit I, Unit II, Rasulgarh and Palasuni areas. "We want to ensure that the vendors don't keep stale food for the next day. The usual practice is leftover food on a given day (till night) is kept to be mixed up with freshly cooked food. This makes them unhygienic," Patel added.
Food safety squads said fast food items and some local delicacies are mostly dumped at the source itself.
"So far bacterial contamination has been detected in three food samples. Now, we will randomly check panipuri (gupchup) and dahi bara-aludam stalls to find out if the water they use is contaminated," Patel said.
Laboratory tests also ascertain if any colour and preservatives that are not permissible in food are used.
BMC officials said there are some shops, including eateries, which mostly carry out their business in the evening. Hence, the SHINE team has been asked to move around the eateries in the evening as well.
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