Focus on ensuring clean eateries

Low (right) with a bottle of milk with damaged cover found at a hypermarket during a pre-Hari Raya food safety checks by enforcement officers. - Bernama

MELAKA: The state Health Department will carry out checks at food outlets in the state as cleanliness and hygiene levels at some premises were found lacking, said Melaka Health and Anti-Drug Committee chairman Low Chee Leong.

He said poor cleanliness standards were the main reasons for food poisoning and other health complications among the public.