[1]To ensure safe and hygienic food in the city hotels, the corporation in association with Kerala Hotel and Restaurants Association (KHRA) is planning to implement several measures, which will include compulsory periodic medical check-up of hotel staff. Thattukadas (wayside eateries) will also come under stringent norms.
Wayside eateries without licences and working under unhygienic conditions would be shut down. “We want to set minimum standards. Any hotel flouting the set standards would be taken to task,” health department sources warned.
KHRA general secretary Jos Mohan, however, was skeptical. Some proposals including installation of waste management facilities at hotels, he felt, were not practicable. “We can turn this programme into a success only through concerted efforts,” he cautioned.
Meanwhile, corporation health standing committee chairman, T.K. Ashraf warned the hotels against serving stale food. “We’re now conducting raids regularly. We’ll cancel the licenses of hotels found supplying stale food,” he threatened.
On KHRA assertion that it’d been kept in the dark about the new initiatives, Ashraf said a meeting would soon be convened with its representatives.
“We’ll roll out the new initiatives soon after the meeting,” he said.
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