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Food businesses are not always connected to the municipal drinking water supply. Especially not if they are outside the construction zone. In this case, according to the Office of Food Safety and Animal Health (ALT), they must ensure that they install and operate a state-of-the-art drinking water supply system. This is a challenge, especially for companies in the alpine region, such as alpine dairies, mountain restaurants or SAC cabins. This is because the soil is mostly rocky, the cover is low, and the water supply is modest.
However, safe drinking water must also be available in these systems so that companies can produce good quality food. Therefore, from mid-June to mid-September, the Glarus and Graubünden food inspectors monitored 23 drinking water supplies across the board. As indicated in a message from the ALT, the controlled systems are operated by 15 alpine dairies, seven mountain restaurants and a SAC cabin.
18 of the 23 systems are faulty
The drinking water supplies of three restaurants, an alpine cheese factory and the SAC hut showed no defects, as reported. In 18 plants, however, it turned out that a specific control was necessary. The most common deficiencies were leaky wells, unsecured inlet covers, rusted fittings, lack of protection against ingress of insects and amphibians, and insufficient surge protection against livestock grazing. Apparently little attention was paid to maintaining the systems, according to the office.
The ALT has called on operators to better maintain and maintain systems and to correct structural defects. (rac)
