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1 In Every 3 Mumbai Street Food Sellers Can Kill You With Their Food

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1 In Every 3 Mumbai Street Food Sellers Can Kill You With Their Food
June 17, 2015


BMC starts massive drive against food vendors after finding the deadly bacteria in roadside snack samples that were mostly collected from areas in south Mumbai.
One-third of 600 street food samples tested by the BMC - a majority of them from south Mumbai - have been found to have the Escherichia coli bacteria in them. The E Coli bacteria cause severe urinary tract infection, kidney failure and bloody diarrhea, and can lead to death.

Following the report, which was submitted last week, Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta has initiated a massive drive against food hawkers in the city. Additional Municipal Commissioner Sanjay Deshmukh has also called for an urgent meeting of the BMC's health officers, and he has instructed that the roadside hawkers who are cooking food on road should be stopped from doing so and their material should be confiscated. Deshmukh has also told medical officers of all the 24 wards in the city to keep collecting samples from hawkers for checking in laboratories. "This is the first time we have started collecting roadside food samples," said Dr Padmaja Keskar, executive health officer, BMC. "We have collected 600 samples from across the city and the suburbs and tested them at our Dadar food testing laboratory.

The reports were shocking! In 200 samples we have found E coli and majority of them are from south Mumbai - mainly Churchgate, CST, Marine Lines, Fort, Byculla, etc."
When BMC health officers made further inquiries, she said, they came to know that the hawkers are using well water they get through tankers. "The hawkers were also operating without proper licences. We have taken immediate action against them and we have confiscated their cooking gas cylinders," Keskar added. Most of the samples tested were of popular roadside snacks such as pani puri and pav bhaji, and liquids such as lassi, juices, and curries.

"This is a serious issue," said Deshmukh. On one hand we are making lots of efforts to improve our healthcare system and on the other hand these unhygienic eateries are serving life threatening diseases. I have instructed a massive drive against roadside hawkers. We will confiscate their material and we will continue this drive." In one week, the BMC has taken action against 5,000 illegal roadside food vendors.(Originally published by Mumbai Mirror)


http://www.indiatimes.com/news/indi...lers-can-kill-you-with-their-food-233729.html
 
Street food fellows would not have given the usual ' Haftha' to BMC fellows . They might have hit back.

A large % of mumbai manages on street food such as vada pav, pani puri and juices.for lunch.

It is far safer than hotel food as the livelihood of hawkers depend on it.

Periodically there are drives against them

Then again it is life as usual.

Water has become a major source of diseases .

In delhi there is a huge dengue epidemic .

This year it has reached a higher proportion as compared to earlier years.

Some die .

It will be back to normal by october end. It is a seasonal event
 
Has any study or tests ever been done on in-flight food items? We get served such uneatable foodstuffs!
 
There was a hue and cry some time back about the poor quality of food in indian railways and the pathetic condition of the pantry car. What happened after that? Have all the trains been serving top notch quality food from sparkling pantries?
 
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