No online food order in Punjab without hygiene rating

Setting three months deadline, the Punjab Government on Thursday directed all the online food order and supply companies to display the hygiene ratings of all the Food Business Operators registered or affiliated with them.

Moving ahead on the quality food assurance agenda of Tandrust Punjab Mission, the directions were issued by the state Health and Family Welfare Minister Brahm Mohindra giving them three months for compliance. The Minister said that after 90 days of issuance of formal communiqué in this regard, “no online food order is to be delivered in the State without hygiene rating”.

Giving details, the state Food and Drug Administration Commissioner-cum-Tandrust Punjab Mission director KS Pannu said that Online Food Order and Supply Companies take online orders from the consumers for the supply of food and deliver the same after procuring it from the food business operators (FBO’s) associated with them.