Erode Collector instructs officials to conduct regular inspections in hotels and bakeries

Collector S. Kandasamy has directed Food Safety Department officials to behaviour regular inspections of hotels and bakeries to guarantee the prime of nutrient items.

He chaired a district-level consultative gathering connected nutrient information astatine the Collectorate present connected Thursday (January 29, 2026). The gathering was organised by the Food Safety Department successful coordination with officials from authorities and backstage sectors.

Addressing the gathering, the Collector emphasised that each nutrient concern operators indispensable get mandatory licences oregon registrations from the Food Safety Department and guarantee that nutrient handlers acquisition prescribed nutrient information grooming earlier operating their establishments.

He stressed the request to support hygiene astatine roadside nutrient stalls and to amended the prime and sanitation of nutrient served successful schoolhouse and assemblage hostels and hospitals. He besides directed officials to instrumentality strict enactment to curb the merchantability of baccy products banned by the State government. The Collector further instructed that hotels and bakeries should strictly debar the reuse of cooking lipid and guarantee that utilized lipid is sent for recycling for biodiesel production.

G. Varalakshmi, Designated Food Safety Officer; M. Vivekanandan, Additional Superintendent of Police, officials from assorted departments, and representatives of the District Hotel Owners Association, District Traders Association and Consumer Association were present.