Guwahati: Except the state public well being laboratory in Guwahati, Assam has no different lab in any district to check the chemical content material in greens, which poses a critical menace to public well being. This even after eight years of the announcement by the then chief minister Tarun Gogoi in 2015, sources within the meals security division stated.
Gogoi had introduced the formation of a regulatory physique to observe the usage of chemical pesticides in vegetable cultivation within the state and other people would have the ability to file complaints about contaminated greens. He had stated after the preliminary section, such laboratories can be arrange in each subdivision of the state.
“There are a few ‘Food Safety on Wheels’ mobile labs in the state. The mobile lab teams visit the districts and carry out testing. However, there is a need to increase the number of mobile labs to increase the checks and cover the districts properly and more frequently,” the official stated.
According to the Food Safety Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) information, Assam has solely six ‘Food Safety on Wheels’ (FSW) cellular labs. The FSSAI gave the primary FSW in 2017 and second in 2019 and 4 in January final yr. The FSSAI acknowledged that the FSWs could also be utilised as an offsite wing of labs and a useful instrument for coaching road meals distributors, meals enterprise operators and plantation employees.
The problem of the free move of contaminated greens into the state, significantly Guwahati, because of the inactiveness of the authorities involved got here to mild after the Gauhati excessive court docket just lately directed the state authorities to chalk out a plan to stop it. Following the court docket’s order, the state authorities submitted earlier than the HC that it’ll represent six groups of officers drawn from completely different departments, together with the FSSAI, to verify the entry of autos in any respect the three main entry factors to Guwahati.
An official stated the federal government will quickly notify the formation of the groups for monitoring the move of contaminated greens on the metropolis’s entry factors.
Gogoi had introduced the formation of a regulatory physique to observe the usage of chemical pesticides in vegetable cultivation within the state and other people would have the ability to file complaints about contaminated greens. He had stated after the preliminary section, such laboratories can be arrange in each subdivision of the state.
“There are a few ‘Food Safety on Wheels’ mobile labs in the state. The mobile lab teams visit the districts and carry out testing. However, there is a need to increase the number of mobile labs to increase the checks and cover the districts properly and more frequently,” the official stated.
According to the Food Safety Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) information, Assam has solely six ‘Food Safety on Wheels’ (FSW) cellular labs. The FSSAI gave the primary FSW in 2017 and second in 2019 and 4 in January final yr. The FSSAI acknowledged that the FSWs could also be utilised as an offsite wing of labs and a useful instrument for coaching road meals distributors, meals enterprise operators and plantation employees.
The problem of the free move of contaminated greens into the state, significantly Guwahati, because of the inactiveness of the authorities involved got here to mild after the Gauhati excessive court docket just lately directed the state authorities to chalk out a plan to stop it. Following the court docket’s order, the state authorities submitted earlier than the HC that it’ll represent six groups of officers drawn from completely different departments, together with the FSSAI, to verify the entry of autos in any respect the three main entry factors to Guwahati.
An official stated the federal government will quickly notify the formation of the groups for monitoring the move of contaminated greens on the metropolis’s entry factors.
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