Registering & licensing of eateries - restaurants begins in Madurai; 26 FSOs on the job

Registering and licensing of hotels, eateries and roadside vendors under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA), 2006, is currently underway at Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

The Madurai Corporation has 10 food safety officers on its rolls and there are 16 more who will be in charge of implementing the Act in the rural areas of the state.

The officials appointed to implement the FSSA now have the powers to enforce the rules. Anyone found violating them will have their licences cancelled.