Health team collects 12 samples of food products

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 13

Continuing its crusade against adulteration of food under the ‘Tandarust Punjab Mission’, a joint team of Health and Dairy Department carried out a sampling drive in the city and collected 12 samples on Monday.

The team, including Deputy Director, Dairy, Ram Lubhaya, Food Safety Officer, Rashu Mahajan, Divya Bhagat, inspector, dairy development, Variam Singh and others collected samples of various products, including milk, cheese, curd, mustard oil and others from Ghas Mandi, Kishanpura Chowk and Deep Nagar.

Cheese-manufacturing units raided

Nawanshahr: Under the ‘Tandarust Punjab Mission’ a food safety team comprising Manoj Khosla, Assistant Commissioner, Food, and Sangeeta Sehdev, Food Safety Officer, conducted raids on cheese manufacturing units and other dairies and collected three samples of cheese.

Manoj Khosla, Mission Director, ‘Tandarust Punjab Mission’, Kahan Singh Pannu, Commissioner, Food and Drug, had directed the officials of the departments to nail the culprits indulged in the adulteration of milk and milk products.

He asked the owners of cheese manufacturing units to manufacture good-quality cheese having 50% of milk fat on dry basis and warned them not to use any harmful acid for precipitation of milk. —TNS