Ujjain: Training was imparted to the wholesale and retail meals pros of the district on the final day of a two-day workshop on Food Adulteration and Food Safety Act by the Department of Food and Drug Administration on Sunday.
In the two-day workshop, 278 samples have been tested in the district via mobile meals laboratory. The meals laboratory operating from January 4 to January 9 will be offered alternately from 3 pm to 5 pm at the whole zone offices of Ujjain Municipal Corporation. State government has supplied a mobile meals laboratory to Ujjain division to verify the meals products of the public, in which buyers can verify the meals products of their day-to-day use for only Rs 10. The laboratory will be offered in Ujjain district from 1st to 10th of every single month.
Use APP to get meals products checked
The facility of testing of meals products via mobile meals laboratory for frequent citizens has been introduced in the municipal mobile app “UMC Service” in collaboration with Municipal Corporation of Ujjain by the division of meals and drug administration. Through the app, buyers can get in touch with for investigation.
Helpline Number
Consumers can also get in touch with helpline quantity 9479534737. In addition, buyers can also submit their meals products to the workplace at Ksheersagar Road of the meals and drug administration for screening.
PROCEEDINGS DAY 1
The Department of meals safety administration organised a instruction programme of meals pros related with all sorts of meals products like snacks, sweets, Poha, Parmal, bakery, flour, besan, oil, milk, spices, and so forth, at Kalidas Sanskrit Academy auditorium right here on Saturday. The instruction programme was inspired by the designated officer of the division and joint collector Jagdish Mehra by providing vital guidance to meals pros asked them to take duty of the society to establish the determine Ujjain district as a de-adulterated district.
Food safety officer Basant Dutt Sharma gave a briefing on the law to the meals pros. It was educated to them that it would be mandatory to record the info needed as per the Act on the level of all sorts of meals products such as sell quantity, packing date, manufacturer’s name and address, green mark on vegetarian meals, information of supplies utilised in meals manufacturing, date of use of meals products, nutritional info, and so forth. The manufacturer and seller have to guarantee to sale diverse items only when complete info is recorded at the level as pointed out.
It was informed by the meals safety officer that the collection and preparation of meals products should really be taken care of in complete cleanliness and hygiene and employees and employees should really also adhere to private hygiene. The instruction created conscious of the doable adulteration of meals products and the inquiries raised by the meals pros concerning the law have been also solved.