Food safety inspections will be strengthened in the State, Health Minister Veena George has said.
Inaugurating six new mobile food safety laboratories here on Tuesday, Ms. George said that Kerala had become the first State with mobile food safety labs in all districts. The functioning of the mobile labs would be strictly monitored by the Deputy Food Safety Commissioner and the labs would be GPS-tagged. Each of these labs would be under the jurisdiction of the respective Food Safety Officers in districts.