Aug 23, 2017

Food safety: 17 establishments served closure notice

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a raid conducted by department of food safety as part of Bakrid-Onam festival season, 17 establishments were served closure notices with had serious violation of food safety norms.
Food safety commissionrate has started raids in food business establishment in the state from Sunday. In the raids conducted in the past two days, the food safety department has slapped a total fine of Rs 17.82 lakhs and served notices on 510 establishments. It has conducted inspections in 1019 establishments.
In Thiruvananthapuram, a fine of Rs 1.7 lakh was slapped and notices were served to 21 establishments. In Kollam, Rs 1.5 lakh fine was slapped on various establishments. Notices were served to 46 establishments.
In Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha, 30 and 29 establishments were served improvement notices. Thirty five establishments were served notices in Kottayam. Closure notice was served to one establishment each in Idukki, Ernakulam and Pathanamthitta districts. Operations of five establishments were stopped in Kollam.
The raids will continue in the coming days. For the first time, food safety department has started 40 squads for raids.

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