Sri Lanka Ministry of Health and Nutrition is to launch an island wide program to inspect all hotels and food sales centers for hygiene and safety during the forthcoming 'food safety week'. The program inspecting the food safety will be launched on October 17 and will be continued for a week. Shops and hotels selling and preparing unhygienic foods will be identified and prevented from continuing to engage in business during this period through 1,600 Public Health Inspectors in the country.