News Today 16.01.2014
Chennai Corporation continues crackdown on food stalls on Marina
Chennai: The Chennai Corporation on Thursday
continued to seize substandard food products including oil, snacks and
water sachets from vendors as part of the drive against the sale of
spurious food products on Marina Beach.
Official sources reveal that eatables prepared at
unhygienic surroundings remained popular amid beach goers. In today’s
raid, it is belived to have seized 50 litres of spurious oil, 40kg of
unhygienic meat and fish from the vendors on Thursday.
A huge crowd gathered on Marina Beach as today is ‘Kaanum Pongal’ day,
and the sale of packaged drinking water, snacks and soft drinks went up.
“‘We will also conduct raids from afternoon onwards and action will be
initiated against vendors selling food items prepared in unhygienic
conditions” the official said.
Health officials cautioned people to check the manufacturing date and
the batch number before purchasing soft drinks and packaged drinking
water.