Filthy and unclean utensils have put the health of scores of people at risk, especially those consuming food from different outlets, including hotels and kiosks.
There is a need to introduce a new law that should force vendors and owners of hotels to use disposable pots in their food outlets and temporary stalls in the twin cities.
According to a survey conducted, most of the juice centres and outlets serving common food items in markets lack proper arrangement to wash utensils thus making customers quite vulnerable to viral diseases.
“The vendors selling fruit chat have only one bucket full of water and they dips and rinses used utensils into it and even do not bother to think how it would pose health risks to his customers, the survey report said.
It is quite ironic that food outlets being run on temporary or permanent basis are mushrooming in every nook and corner across the country, but number of health officers and food inspectors are gradually decreasing, as there are only two food inspectors in the capital city to keep vigil over unhealthy practices of food vendors and stall holders. “Water in which vendors wash utensils sometimes carries particles of broken food, but they continue to wash steel plates in it despite knowing the fact that such practice would pose severe threats to lives of their customers,” a visitor at the commercial market told.
Doctors said if vendors wash their utensils in fresh water even then threat of viral diseases cannot be ruled out because cracks in food pots become ‘house of germs’ and it is near-to-impossible to remove these germs through a simple wash.
There is a need to introduce a new law that should force vendors and owners of hotels to use disposable pots in their food outlets and temporary stalls in the twin cities.
According to a survey conducted, most of the juice centres and outlets serving common food items in markets lack proper arrangement to wash utensils thus making customers quite vulnerable to viral diseases.
“The vendors selling fruit chat have only one bucket full of water and they dips and rinses used utensils into it and even do not bother to think how it would pose health risks to his customers, the survey report said.
It is quite ironic that food outlets being run on temporary or permanent basis are mushrooming in every nook and corner across the country, but number of health officers and food inspectors are gradually decreasing, as there are only two food inspectors in the capital city to keep vigil over unhealthy practices of food vendors and stall holders. “Water in which vendors wash utensils sometimes carries particles of broken food, but they continue to wash steel plates in it despite knowing the fact that such practice would pose severe threats to lives of their customers,” a visitor at the commercial market told.
Doctors said if vendors wash their utensils in fresh water even then threat of viral diseases cannot be ruled out because cracks in food pots become ‘house of germs’ and it is near-to-impossible to remove these germs through a simple wash.
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