Dr. Balbir urges officers to create demand for food sagety vans
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, September 2-
Cabinet Minister Dr Balbir Singh on Monday stressed on the need to encourage people to optimally utilise food safety vans to get tested their food to know what they are eating.
Dr Balbir Singh was addressing the gathering after inaugurating a five-day Refresher Training Programme for Designated Officers (Food Safety) organized by FSSAI in collaboration with the Government of Punjab at MGSIPA here.
"You should be the go-to person for people seeking food testing. Create awareness, especially among students, about the availability of food safety vans,” he said.The HM said that health is not just the absence of disease, but encompasses ecological health as well. Air and water pollution are alarming, and food adulteration is rampant, he added.
“Being a HM it is my responsibility to make sure that the food people are getting is safe, not only people, I would say the insects, butterflies, they are also breathing the same air and drinking same water, and they also have their rights as they don’t have their MLAs, Ministers to speak for them, I have to speak for them,” said Dr Balbir Singh.
