HYDERABAD, Aug 24: Mukh-tiarkar Revenue Taluka Hyderabad Rural Kazi Mushtaq Ahmed, on Friday visited fruit mandi, hotels, atta chakkis, bakeries, dairies and sweet shops on Zila Nazim’s directives. He was accompanied by the Food Inspector Health Department, Mohammad Yousuf Ali.

Vendors were asked to refrain from selling rotten fruits, unhygienic food items and contaminated drinks, and further advised to destroy such edibles as diseases like gastroenteritis, diarrhoea and other stomach ailments were on rise. He asked the shopkeepers to obtain license from the concerned department and warned of taking legal action against those found violating orders.

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