Two charged for selling unhygienic food

Kapila Somaratne Panadura group corr

Panadura Magistrate R S A Dissanayaka issued summons on a hotel owner and a catering house owner in Panadura to appear before Court for possessing and exhibiting unhygienic food to be sold to the public. This was sequel to plaints filed by Panadura Urban Council Public Health Inspector D Amarawansa under the Food Act No 26 of 1980.

PHI Amarawansa with health officials raided the eating houses and hotels in the Panadura town and drew samples of food sold to the public and forwarded to the National Health and Scientific Institute at Kalutara for laboratory tests.

Dr M V S C Pathirana and D Sugatha Pathirage, the National Health and Science Institute Analysts in Kalutara, confirmed that the samples were bacteriologically unsatisfactory.

On the findings of the medical report Panadura Urban Council’s Public Health Inspector Amarawansa filed plaints.