Food Safety Department lab will get state-of-the-art evaluation gear

Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin on Monday inaugurated, by videoconference, state-of-the-art gear value ₹8 crore within the meals evaluation laboratory of the Food Safety Department right here.

The Chief Minister inaugurated Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer, which can be utilized for analysing the presence of dangerous residual pesticides in foodgrains, fruits, greens and many others. and the antigens in animal protein. The Inductively-coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy can be utilized for detecting the presence of heavy metals like lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury within the meals and water.

The Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectroscopy can be utilized for estimating the presence of pesticides, weedicides and chemical progress promoters, all utilized by the farmers and the dairy and poultry farmers for growing the yield.

“The ultra-modern equipments put in within the Food Safety Department laboratory will likely be a boon to the shoppers as these machines can simply detect adulteration within the foodstuff being offered by the eating places, bakeries and packaged snacks. These equipments will even be helpful in detecting the residual chemical substances within the foodgrains, fruits, greens and animal protein because the growers use the pesticides, weedicides and the antigens to guard their crop and the home animals, however trigger dangerous results to the shoppers. So, these gear will play efficient function in defending the shoppers,” Collector R. Sukumar mentioned.

The Collector requested officers of the laboratory to take samples of greens being raised with sewage water and check these vegetation for presence of heavy metals.

“Since the presence of heavy metals within the greens would trigger critical well being points by affecting kidney and different important organs, the officers have been instructed to take samples of those leafy vegetation being nourished with sewage water,” mentioned Dr. Sukumar, who additionally instructed the lab officers to take samples of the foodstuff and the snacks like chilli hen, sweets and savoury objects, all colored with synthetic colouring brokers, to draw the shoppers, particularly the youngsters.

The Chief Minister inaugurated the extra godown constructed with 16,000 sq. toes space at a price of ₹6 crore to retailer medicines on Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital premises as further amount of medicines can’t be saved within the present facility close to the Government Law College. These storage factors will provide the medicines to all authorities hospitals and first well being centres within the district.

Mayor G. Ramakrishnan, Palayamkottai MLA M. Abdul Wahab, Joint Director of Health Services Latha, District Health Officer Vijayachandran and District Food Safety Officer Pushparaj had been current.

After Mr. Stalin inaugurated an extra constructing with six school rooms in Kadambankulam Government Adi Dravida Higher Secondary School, Nanguneri MLA Ruby R. Manoharan lighted the lamp within the college.