Restaurants in the town were raided for the fifth time
in a month on Wednesday. The previous raids were found to have had
little effect with authorities finding stale food from eateries yet
again.
Raids were conducted by the health wing of the
Alappuzha municipality in 15 restaurants; stale items were seized from
most of them. These include outlets situated at the Alappuzha beach,
near the Alappuzha railway station and Vellakinar. The items seized
included rice, fish curry, chicken and vegetable dishes, and stale oil
with many of them found to be many weeks old.
Health
Inspectors K.N. Harish, Junior Health Inspectors P. Sandesh, Sumesh
Pavithran and C. Ajayakumar were among those who led the raids.
According to officials, selling stale food could attract fines up to Rs.
25,000 and also suspension of the particular restaurant’s license.
However,
criticisms have been raised from various quarters that letting errant
restaurant owners go with light punishments have led to many having
scant regard for flouting basic food and hygiene standards set by the
Food Safety and Standards Act.
There is growing call to impose stringent actions against those found to violate such norms.
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