Punjab Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jyani on Thursday directed all civil surgeons and health officials to intensify raids to check adulterated sweets during festive season.
He issued direction to all civil surgeons to tighten the noose against not only the wholesale sweet sellers but also the small and medium shopkeepers selling unhygienic and impure eatables in the State.
He also asked to collect samples of food products right from top wholesale sweet sellers to the street vendors including kulche channe to check adulteration. The Minister asked the health authorities to adopt zero tolerance against preparation and supply of adulteration sweets, cheese and milk based sweets and other eatables.
Health Minister also made public his contact no. — 9915708000 — for the facilitation of general public to register their plaints, if the local health officers were not accessible. Giving clear instructions to the surveillance teams, the Minister directed them to destroy the seized suspicious and adulterated eatables immediately after seizure in presence of the shop owners.He said that requisite penalties should also be imposed on the erring shopkeepers, who were found playing with the lives of people.