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Seminar on Implementation of Food Safety and Standards Act

Port Blair, Dec. 23: An inter-active Seminar on the implementation of Food Safety and Standards Act and Rules is being organised by the Commissioner of Food Safety (DHS) A&N Administration on 4th January 2012 at 10.00 am in the auditorium of the G.B. Pant Hospital, Port Blair. The seminar is for the benefit of the businessmen/ traders of these islands. 

During the seminar, discussions and power point presentation will be held on various aspects of FSS Act, Rules and Regulations. The President ACCI in a communication has requested all its members dealing with trades and business to attend the seminar and make full use of it. The seminar is also being organised as per the request made by the ACCI.

10,000 containers of Ayyappa prasadam found to be of poor quality dumped


Some 10,000 containers of Aravana, the sweet made from jaggery, rice and ghee, as prasadam offering for Lord Ayyappa of Sabarimala in Kerala have been dumped near the incinerator at Malikappuram in the southern state.

M Satheeshkumar, executive officer, Travancore Devaswom Board, informed FnB News, "The stocked containers of Aravana were found burst out and this had happened due to the use of poor quality sarkara (molasses)."

Further, another three tonne molasses that were brought to the temple town for the purpose of making Aravana were sent back as they were of poor quality. A sample of the same was sent to Central Lab, Trivandrum, for analysis.

The molasses were found to be of poor quality in spite of the fact that they were brought after conducting a lab test at the Analytical Lab at Pampa.