Stricter food safety standards to apply for sweets and namkeen in UP

Lucknow, Oct 26 (UNI) To ensure compliance with food safety standards, encompassing the making, packaging, storage and sale of sweets and namkeen, the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA), Uttar Pradesh, has prepared detailed guidelines. Under these, food safety officers will have to pay special attention to checking rules related to cleanliness, raw material quality, use of food colours, oil quality, temperature control, packaging and licensing in manufacturing units, sweet shops and namkeen-making establishments. UPFSDA Commissioner Dr Roshan Jacob said the aim of these guidelines is to provide consumers with safe, pure and quality food, and to curb irregularities such…