District food safety officials yet to collect samples of mid-day meal from schools

Indore | Monday | 18th September, 2017

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They will also have to collect samples of mid-day meal from similar number of government schools in the next month." Food safety officer Manish Swami said, "As per the order, the officials are required to do sudden inspection at 10 government-run schools and collect food samples in this month. Following the incident, about 200 students of the school had refused to eat mid-day meal. They were ready to eat the food only after the senior officials from zila panchayat assured them of quality of the food. INDORE: Despite worms being found in mid-day meal of a school and one month after the order for collection of samples of food items being served to children in government-run schools under mid-day meal scheme, district food safety department is yet to take any action.Only three days ago, a teacher of Government Middle School number-40 in Dhakkanwala Kuan, had spotted worms in the mid-day meal when the food was about to be served to the students..