Health Dept takes 68 samples of food items

Ludhiana | Tuesday | 19th June, 2018

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Tribune News ServiceLudhiana, June 18The district administration is making consistent efforts to ensure that residents get unadulterated and hygienic food in the city under which a team of the Health Department collected 68 samples of food and destroyed seven quintals of vegetables and fruits on Monday. Dr Kang said, besides this, the department had also destroyed the fruits and vegetables ripened artificially through chemicals. Besides this, the shopkeepers have also being sensitised about the hazards of ripening fruits and vegetables artificially. All these samples have been sent to the government laboratory at Kharar for further analysis. She said this drive would also continue in coming days and action would be taken against defaulters..