date:May 17, 2012
ruit more food safety officers and that around 500 food safety officers (FSOs) would be appointed for the task of checking estimated 60,000 food and drug samples per annum.
Our FSOs will collect the samples from across the state on a regular basis and an annual report would be sent to the FDA, said Pol, adding that the mobile labs would also help the FSOs to immediately act on the emergency cases such as food poisoning in the region that currently the country lacked.
The FSOs would then puni