The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) authorities raided and shut down two food item manufacturing units at Merces, after they detected that one of them was operating without food safety licence while the other was operating in unhygienic condition.
Unlabelled food articles worth around Rs 30,000 was confiscated and destroyed from both the units.
Speaking to Herald, FDA Director Salim Veljee informed that during one of its routine survey in the early hours on Wednesday, a team led by Senior Food Safety Officer Rajiv Korde and Food Safety Officer Flavio D'Souza intercepted two cyclists at Vodlem Bhat-Taleigao.
The cyclists were carrying large quantities of farsan items, toast, biscuits, etc, for distribution to various grocery shops, kiosks and other places in the city.
“On inspection, it was noticed that the food items were not carrying any label declaration and the physical appearance raised doubts in terms of the use of permitted colours,” said Veljee.
“Some items did not have other label declarations like best before use, name and address of manufacturers, food safety licence number and nutritional claims.”
Veljee then added that the team immediately confiscated and destroyed the food items worth around Rs 6500 from the two cyclists namely Ram Milan Singh and Karan Ram Singh.
“The two cyclists then led the team to a manufacturing unit at Voilem-Bhat, Merces owned by Sameer Nazir Ahmed who was operating the unit in the name of Reshma Bakers, and the premises were found to be very unhygienic,” Veljee said.
“There was no label declaration of the food articles. Due to the unhygienic conditions, the unit was asked to shut down,” he added.
Veljee informed that the team then raided a second manufacturing unit named Praveen Bakery at Vaddy-Merces which was operating without food safety license and it was also closed down.
He further informed that unlabelled food articles worth around Rs 30000 were confiscated and destroyed, from both the units.
“Both the manufacturing units have been shut down till all defects are rectified and they obtain food safety licence,” he stated.
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