CANACONA: With the government making mandatory the checking of fish imported to Goa from across the border for adulteration, the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) teams comprising food safety officers accompanied by an attendant checked each of the 14 trucks carrying fish that entered into Goa from Friday midnight till Saturday evening. However, no fish was found with added harmful preservatives.
Sources at Polem check post said the FDA team comprising Food Safety Officers (FSO) Rajaram Patil and Shivdas Naik and sampling assistant Arjun Naik with the assistance of police personnel at the Polem check post, checked 14 trucks loaded with different varieties of fresh fish which arrived past Friday midnight till Saturday morning.
FDA officials Priya Desai and Zenia Rosario who were on duty on Saturday checked the lone fish carrying truck from across the border that arrived on Saturday. All the random samples drawn from the 14 trucks tested negative for the presence of any addition of chemical preservatives, sources said.
As the fishing ban to facilitate breeding of fish on the west coast ended on July 31, the over 80 tonnes of fish that was brought by the insulated trucks was from coastal areas of Karnataka and Kerala.
FDA sources said that they would continuously test the fish coming from other States into Goa for presence of chemicals harmful to humans.
