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.