Officials seized 350 kgs of spurious tea stocked in the house of a wholesale trader at Ayyappan Nagar on Wednesday.
Following
information from the public that a wholesale trader from Ayyappan Nagar
in Tuticorin was selling spurious tea to other shopkeepers, Urban Food
Safety Officers S. Chandramohan and T. Ramakrishnan on Wednesday raided
the house of one Kannan, who had stored 350 kgs of tea dust packets with
various brand labels for sale.
Unfit for human consumption
Since the officials suspected that the tea dust was not suitable for human consumption, the packets were seized.
If
the tea samples sent for analysis under the provisions of the Food
Safety and Standards Act,2006, showed that the tea was adulterated, fine
up to Rs. 5 lakh could be imposed on the wholesale trader.
Consumption
of spurious tea decoction may cause digestion problems initially, which
may lead to ulcer and even cancer, the officials warned.
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