Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Aug 28: Nearly 1000 litres used cooking oil has been collected from food business operators and handed over to used cooking oil authorized agency which would be converted into bio-diesel.
The Food Safety Team of Muncipal Limits conducted an interactive workshop for food handlers, food business operators and street food vendors at Jammu today.
The street vendors of Jammu along with Food Safety Jammu would be organising the festival related initiatives very soon .
The workshop focused on green initiatives to collect and convert used cooking oil to bio-diesel.
Dr Parvesh Kumar, Assistant Commissioner Food Safety Jammu informed that used cooking oil creates free radicals which attaches to our healthy cells and thus causes serious ailments like heart diseases, bad cholesterol, cancer, and irritable throat. The used cooking oil discharge can also pollute water bodies, freshwater resources and soil. One litre of used oil can contaminate 10,00,000 litres of fresh water.
Nodal officer RUCO Raj Kumar briefed that every used oil collection is recorded and verified with FSSAI registration number of the food business operator.
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