The Food Safety and Drug Administration department officials have issued show-cause notices to five shops situated in Tirupur city and its suburbs after they found that the sweets were either prepared or sold in unhygienic and poor sanitary conditions in the said shops.
K. Tamilselvan, Designated Food Safety Officer, said that the show-cause notices were slapped on the shop owners because of reasons varying from unclean surroundings, open storage of baked items to unhygienic practices in the preparation level.
The defects were noticed during the checks carried out over the past few days till Sunday.
Mr. Tamilselvan said the department had also given instructions to shop owners not to mix sweets made of milk with other sweets either during storage or at the point of sale.
“The shelf life of milk sweets is only three days. So it should not be mixed with other edible items and stored as the entire lot could get decayed,” he added.
The officials would also be checking in the next few days leading to Deepavali whether the sweets were compulsorily sold in ‘food grade’ containers according to the laws. “During the checks, we are ensuring that the shops were not storing water in open containers so as to reduce the breeding possibilities of mosquitoes,” said Mr. Tamilselvan.
