DIMAPUR — Under
the special National Annual Surveillance Plan (NASP), an initiative of Food
Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), state food safety officers of
Kohima, Mokokchung and Dimapur zones lifted a number of surveillance samples on
fresh fruits and vegetables, food grains, organic foods, confectionaries
including chocolates, packaged drinking water/ mineral water, paneer and dairy
analogues, jaggery samples etc.
A DIPR report stated that a total of 97 survey samples were
lifted from Kohima, Mokokchung, Dimapur, Phek and Tuensang and sent to the
State Public Health Laboratory in Kohima and to other National Accreditation
Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).
Apart from the special surveillance drive, it stated that
food samples are lifted every month of both survey and enforcement samples.
In continuation to the above, surveillance drive on dairy
analogues and used cooking oil is ongoing to check and prevent food
adulteration, fraud regarding the standards, labelling and misinterpretation of
dairy analogue products and also to check/prevent the re-entry of used cooking
oil in the food chain.
