Hygiene Is Low Priority At City F&B Outlets
Given that the recently passed Food Safety and Standards Bill, 2005, which is to become an act shortly aims to bring about a single statute relating to food and to lay down science-based standards for articles of food and regulate their manufacture, import, export, storage, distribution and sale, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption, a survey conducted recently by a private company revealed that more than 60 per cent of hotels, restaurants and fast food outlets in the city do not maintain sanitary conditions in their kitchens.