Vadodara: Strange as it seems, but at the time Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) tests the sample of food items collected by food security officers, many of us will have consumed unsafe or under standard products.
Each festival, food security officer from the Civic body accommodated in the restaurant and created the impression that there was a massive activity against those who sell foods not suitable for consumption.
The reality is that the amount and scale of the food business operator is far greater than that can be handled by the eight team of food security officers.
Even the number of samples collected by these officers throughout the year is not enough to ensure quality food throughout the year.
Eight officers only collected 491 samples until this month this year.
In 2020, 210 samples were collected and, in 2019, the figure was established at 281.
The details arose when the opposition Congress leader at VMC Ami Ravat visited the Department of Food Safety and search for data.
According to Ravat, the test results from whatever the samples collected also arrived in about two weeks.
“When the results come, stock stocks that fail to be sold and consumed by consumers,” Ravat said.
He also stated in a letter to VMC Top Brass that a large number of hesitant cases in court.
The officers appointed for food security and additional health workers Dr.
Mukesh Vaidya said that the Civic body had started the recruitment process for 12 food security officers.
“The power will increase to 20 of eight.
The application has been studied and the test will be taken soon,” he said.
Vaidya said that food safety and Indian law standards (FSSAI) themselves provide 14 days to test samples.
He added that he would not comment on the liah case because it was a matter of justice.