JMC on alert to check inflow of adulterated products in Jammu

JMC on alert to check inflow of adulterated products in Jammu

Yash Khajuria

JAMMU, Oct 31: Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has intensified its anti-adulteration drive, by conducting raids on various commercial outlets, particularly those selling dairy products and sweet ahead of festival of lights.

Ahead of two close fest Karva Chauth and Diwali the JMC have deployed teams comprising members from sanitation workers and food safety officers under the direct supervision of JMC’s Health Officer, Vinod Sharma have been asked to keep a check on adulterers.

So far the JMC has taken nearly 30 samples from the different localities, and has sent them to the Lab to analyze adulteration in food items.

When contacted Health Officer, JMC he said that in the wake of the festival season, the corporation has sounded an alert and has initiated special anti-adulteration drive.

“Teams are being deputed for the purpose and they are busy in inspecting various outlets and there is no dearth of staff in keeping a check over unscrupulous shopkeepers, who are in a bid to make fast and easy money, by indulged in the malpractice.”

He said that the team has detected 5 quintals synthetic khoya during its vigil at Railway station Jammu which is being fetched in large quantities from neighboring states.

“I am personally supervising the entire exercise and my teams are conducting raids of the suspected areas in Jammu,” he said.

“We are also keeping a sharp vigil on the Jammu Railway Station. So far, no big consignment of synthetic khoya has come, but we cannot remain complacent as the khoya is unfit for human consumption,” Vinod Sharma Said.

He adds that despite the vigil on adulteration in fodder items we have also deployed staff from our sanitation team to pulverize the insecticide at unhygienic places also at the drains in the city.

During Navratras and Eid, JMC inspected approximately 4000 establishments like sweetshops, restaurants, roadside eateries, fruit juice sellers, meat shops, tea stalls, bakeries and confectionary shops etc and booked the defaulter who has been fined by the court.

The drive was conducted at Railways Station Bikram Chowk, Airport, Satwari, Residency Road, etc.

About 4 quintals of unwholesome sweets, bakery products, stale cooked food and about 60 kg of Chinese food prepared under unhygienic condition were also destroyed on-the-spot, he added.