Kolkata Municipal Corporation wants safe foods on the streets

Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken up cudgels to ensure that the street food variable in the city must ensure necessary food safety norms, the same will be applicable even to posh eateries in the city. A senior member of KMC visited a number of street food vendors situated at the Dacre’s Lane at Esplanade and also some of the posh eateries including the Lalit’s Great Eastern hotel situated at the central office district of the city to obtain first hand information.
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 22 June 2016.

To express the concern of maintaining food safety norms by the vendors, the civic health department will be distributing a booklet on food safety guideline. During his visit, the dignitary found an eatery using industrial ice, which is not approved to be used in food. Action has not been taken against the vendor, but the stock of such ice has been destroyed.
The civic health team also found usage of synthetic color by an eater owner. That was also seized. It must be noted that the color can be applied only in making sweets but not in cooked food.
Such visits will be undertaken at regular intervals to create awareness.


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