Food officials raid ice cream units

Vijayawada: Are ice creams posing grave threat to the health of children who like them very much. It may be true as many manufacturing units goes on dumping the ice creams into market irrespective of their substandard quality. This was proved when officials of Food Safety along with the Regional Vigilance and Enforcement officials conducted raids on two ice cream manufacturing units in Poranki near Vijayawada on Monday.

During the inspection, the officers noticed the violations of food safety norms and issued notices to the two companies.They collected samples of substances used in the manufacture of ice cream/ frozen desserts for purpose of analysis.

Krishna district assistant food controller and food safety designated officer N Purnachandra Rao stated that they collected samples in Sri Vijaya Durga Frozen Foods, Poranki and also in Sri Datta Milk Foods, Poranki.

He also said that the ice cream companies did not follow the sanitary hygiene and manufacturing practices during their raid and were issued improvement notices for rectification of violations noticed.