JAMMU,
JUNE 19 – Divisional
Commissioner, Jammu Dr. Mandeep Kumar Bhandari today directed the Controller,
Drugs and Food Control Organisation (D&FCO), J&K to conduct inspection
drives in all districts of Jammu and seize artificially ripened fruits.
Controller, Drugs and Food Control
Organisation, J&K Lotika Khajuria, Joint Commissioner, Jammu Municipal
Corporation RS Jamwal and Assistant Controller Food (MLJ) Sanjeev Kumar were
present in the meeting.
The Divisional Commissioner was informed that
four big consignments of artificially ripened fruits with Calcium Carbide have
already been seized and destroyed by D&FCO in the near past. Added to this,
two cases have been launched against the defaulters for artificial ripening of
fruits in the Court of Law as per the provisions laid down under Food Safety
and Standards Act.
The Divisional Commissioner further said
artificially ripened fruits are not healthy and thus, efforts should be made
for saving the consumers from consumption of these harmful fruits.
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