Sale of exposed eatables banned

Chandigarh, Mar 11 (UNI) The District Magistrate of Chandigarh Union Territory has banned the sale of all kinds of exposed eatables like sweets, cakes, biscuits, breads, parched grain, dates and cut fruits.

By an order issued under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, he has also banned the sale of unchlorinated drinking water through water trolleys obtained from unauthorised sources and ice/ice candies/aerated water sold through outlets under unhygienic conditions.

All kinds of cold drinks including lassi, sugarcane-juice, ''sharbats'', ''jaljeera'', curd and cut fruits kept for sale should be properly covered with the help of wire gauze or glass for protection from dust and flies.

This order has come into force with immediate effect and will remain operative upto December 31 2006.

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