Are you planning to buy sweets for Deepavali festival? Read on
Posted on: 17/Oct/2017 10:56:32 AM
An announcement released by the Chennai District Collector lists the food safety checks to be followed if you are buying sweets and savouries from different sweet shops/hotels.
- Avoid buying very colourful looking sweets as they are made with the addition of Artificial Colouring Agents.
- When buying a box of assorted sweets, ensure that milk sweets are not packed together with sweets made of other ingredients. The reason is that milk sweets have a different expiry date as compared with other sweets. So, check the expiry date while buying.
- If flies and other insects are seen around the displayed sweet items, please thoroughly avoid buying the same.
- If the sweet items emanate an unpleasant smell, avoid buying them.
- Obtain a proper receipt after buying these items from the various food shops.
- Please also confirm that the service staff is wearing clean dresses, gloves with the nails trimmed and that they are handling the different food items with gloves.
- Confirm that the seller has displayed the details of the cooking oil/ghee used for making the items in the sales centre.
- Ensure that the items bought are given properly packed with the Food Grade container packing material.
- Check on the sweet packing box whether the ingredients used in different items packed inside are displayed on the cover.
- Ensure that the packing contains the details of the licence issued by the Food Safety Department and the registration.
- Also confirm that the complete address of the manufacturer is printed on the pack. Also, confirm whether expiry date and the Customer Care Number are printed.
- When buying a single item of sweet/savoury in a packing, ensure that the date of manufacture and date of expiry are printed.
- In case anything wrong is observed, get in touch with the WhatsApp number of the Food Safety Department 94440442322 and make your complaint.
