Six cases filed under Food Act in two months

Jayantha de Silva

Six cases were filed under the Food Act in the first two months of 2013 and a total of Rs.7,000 collected as fines. Eighteen cases were filed by the Public Health Department of the CMC under the Food Act in 2012.

The offenders were fined Rs.1,000 each by the Maligakande Magistrate.

In addition, seven persons were fined Rs.1,500 each under the Mosquito Breeding Prevention Programme.

“Raids were conducted by Food Inspectors (FI) and the Public Health Inspectors (PHI) in all 47 Wards,” said PHI D W S K Weerasinghe.

Contaminated food and drink samples have been sent to the CMC laboratory for inspection.

The inspections conducted by the CMC had being hampered by the posting of both PHI’s and FI’s to the outstations.

These postings had a negative effect as on going programmes had been hit by the dearth of trained personnel. Apart from that, some had gone on retirement.