To ensure availability of pure food items to the citizens of the State, intensive campaign is being conducted by the State Government. On the instructions of the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, in an action taken against the adulterators in the last two and a half months. 258 cases were registered and out of these, 208 adulterators have been penalised.
Along with this, penalty of Rs 27.92 lakh has been imposed by the Revenue Court. Out of the total penalty imposed, penalty of 14.65 lakh has already been recovered. The hearing on 36 cases filed in the CJM court in the last two and a half months is underway.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has given instructions to provide pure material to the public and to take strict action against adulterators and those who manufacture and sell spurious food items. He has instructed all the district collectors, police and the concerned departments to take strict action against adulterators, so that neither anyone make adulterated items nor sell in the State.
Controller Food and Drug Administration said that to run activities like increase in number of licenses and registrations, clean street food hub, Eat Right School, Eat Right Campus and public awareness programmes have been included in the selected districts under the Eat Right Challenge. In the action taken during the campaign against adulterators, 5303 inspections were conducted and samples of 2247 food items were taken for inspection and investigation.
Surveillance samples of 468 food items were collected through State Food Mobile Laboratory, 1477 through Magic Box and 325 from other sources.
A test report of 3347 samples was released by the State Food Laboratory from 5303 surveillance samples compiled for investigation. Notices were issued against 347 adulterators under section 32 of the prescribed provision of section 32.
Reports of 3347 samples were given by the State Food Laboratory after examining the compiled samples of food items during the last two and a half months. Of these, 2912 samples were found to be of standard quality and 277 samples were found to be non-standard quality. In addition, 203 samples were found to be fake. Of the total collected food samples, 23 samples were found to be unsafe.