Members of the Social Awareness Movement petitioned the District Collector here on Monday asking him to direct the food safety authorities concerned to test all types of packaged food items, and to impose a ban on them if found harmful to consumers. They came to the Collectorate carrying packets of some snacks stating that the manufacturers were advertising the product healthy food.
The organisation’s president J.D. Socrates claimed that no action has been taken against manufacturers of packed products so far despite repeated petitions submitted to the Collector. He alleged that a senior food safety officer here was colluding with companies against whom complaints were lodged on earlier occasion.
He said that action should be taken against juice, and flour manufacturers too.
Statue
The youth wing members of Indu Makkal Katchi (Tamilagam) in a petition asked the Government to grant permission to install statues of LTTE leader Prabhakaran across the State.
Action sought
Representatives of a trade union sought action against a watchman of a private firm for sexually harassing a widow who was staying in a house on the premises of an industrial unit at Press Colony, where her husband had worked. No action has been taken on her complaints in this regard.
