The food poisoning incident at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, will be the first such case to be registered in the city under the new ‘Food Safety and Standards Regulations.'
The food poisoning incident at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, will be the first such case to be registered in the city under the new ‘Food Safety and Standards Regulations’.
The regulations came into effect on August 5 all over India, and there’s a person who has violated them — the IIT-B canteen in-charge. Nearly 600 IIT-B students got food poisoning on Monday after consuming unhygienic Chinese food cooked in the canteen.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner and commissioner of food and safety, Maharashtra, Mahesh Zagade said, “About 150 officers in the state are working hard to implement the new rules. We are still investigating the IIT case, so I can’t say if it will be the first in the state.”
The maximum punishment for violating the regulations is Rs10 lakh fine and three years in jail. “In the IIT-B case, samples of Klebsiella bacteria have been identified,” Zagade said.
City microbiologists said Klebsiella can be found in diarrhoea and food poisoning cases. “But BMC never accepts this fact. The IIT-B people won’t either,” a doctor who did not want to be identified told DNA.
An FDA official said, “The probe in a Raigad case is already complete, so Mumbai could be left behind if investigation here takes more time.” Fact is barely two months after the regulations came into effect there has been a spate of food poisoning cases. Two days after the IIT-B incident, more than 400 people of Solapur, Kolhapur and Pune also fell ill from contaminated food.
The new regulations will ensure that all food trading establishments including supply chain & storage, big or small (including dabbawalas, tea stalls and egg vendors) are registered under the FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India).
They will have to maintain hygiene norms to ensure that the consumer gets quality food, free from pathogens, toxins, pesticides etc.
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