Punjab government committed to ensure safe & healthy food: Balbir Singh Sidhu

Rozana Spokesman

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Under Mission Tandrust Punjab, Government of Punjab is committed to ensure safe and healthy food to the people, said Balbir Singh Sidhu

Balbir Singh Sidhu

Chandigarh: Under Mission Tandrust Punjab, Government of Punjab is committed to ensure safe and healthy food to the people, said Balbir Singh Sidhu while giving appointment letters to 18 newly recruited food safety officers.

Commissionerate of Food and Drug Administration has been tasked to sensitize Food Business Operators (FBOs) about the distribution of safe food to public and also to take action under the law against those FBOs which indulge in unsafe and substandard food items.

Thirteen persons have been convicted by the Court in last one year with imprisonments up to 6 months and a fine of Rs 3.30 cr. imposed against 2162 Food Business Operators who were found indulging in irregularities adding that Sidhu divulged the department was working with only 29 Food Safety officers and need was left to increase the number of officers for better supervision of food suppliers. Therefore the department has recruited 24 more Food Safety Officers.

K.S. Pannu, Commissioner Food and Drugs Administration stated that with enhanced strength of Food Safety Officers, in Punjab, the Commissionerate shall be increasing its capacity to take action against those indulging in wrong practices in the Food Business.