Meeting of Health Ministers of southern States proposed in Bengaluru to address Food Safety Act anomalies
Health Minister U.T. Khader has proposed a meeting of southern state health ministers in Bengaluru to address inconsistencies in the Food Safety and Standards Act. The initiative follows a series of raids on food outlets and concerns regarding multinational food product standards in India.
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Addresses public health concerns and regulatory gaps in food safety standards across multiple Indian states.
A meeting of Health Ministers of the southern States is proposed in Bengaluru shortly to iron out anomalies in the Food Safety and Standards Act, 1954, said Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader in Mangaluru on Saturday.
Talking to reporters, Mr. Khader said a series of raids was being carried out at well-known hotels, eateries, fruit stalls, and roadside food outlets to check the quality of food and impose fines on those selling contaminated and junk food. In one such raid on a well-known mart, officials found that the chocolate sold by a multinational company in India had a high quantity of sugar, while the sugar quantity was less in the same chocolate sold in other parts of the world.
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