GVMC steps up food safety drive: 35 violations, ₹77,500 in fines in one week
The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has intensified food safety inspections, resulting in 35 violations and fines totaling ₹77,500 in one week. The drive focuses on kitchen hygiene, food quality, and the enforcement of single-use plastic bans.
Why it matters
It underscores municipal efforts to improve public health standards and environmental compliance in the food service industry.
The Sanitation & Health Enforcement (SHE) teams of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) have intensified inspections across the city.
Between August 14 and 21, the teams conducted 98 inspections and detected 35 food safety violations and 33 violations of the ban on single-use plastic (SUP). Notices were issued to 18 business establishments, while fines totalling ₹77,500 were imposed for various violations, GVMC Commissioner Ketan Garg said.
He said the SHE teams had been inspecting hotels, restaurants, food joints, bakeries, street food outlets and small food vendors over the past week, with a focus on food quality, raw material standards, kitchen hygiene and enforcement of the SUP ban.
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