BAREILLY: Food Safety and Drug Administration Department during a raid at a local sauce manufacturing factory found everything except tomato and chilli, the basic raw materials for the preparations.
The raiding team found various chemicals and artificial flavors stored in used beer bottles at the factory premises that resembled a "garbage dump". The factory has been sealed and the products sent for testing.
As per reports, the team raided the premises of a sauce manufacturing company in Hajiyapur locality on Tuesday evening. Seeing the team, workers engaged in preparing and filling the sauce fled from the spot.
"Raw materials like tomatoes and chilli were missing but there were filled bottles of what looked like sauce, kept carelessly in unhygienic condition. The workers were also filling used bottles with acetic acid and labeling it as a local vinegar brand," district food safety officer Ajay Jaiswal told TOI.
"The condition at the factory was very disturbing and absence of raw materials is enough indication that spurious sauce was prepared, which amounts to playing with the lives of people. Moreover, acetic acid, otherwise is used as a preservative, was filled in bottles instead of vinegar, which is shocking. We have collected samples of all the above items and seized products worth several lakhs from the factory. The samples would be sent for testing and case lodged against the factory owner if the test reports state that the samples were unfit for human consumption. The factory has been sealed."
"The team found a white chemical powder in large quantity which they presume was used in preparation of spurious sauce after mixing other chemicals and essence to develop a flavor. The conditions around the factory were very unhygienic with workers engaged in filling the product in bottles which were not even cleaned properly.
Locals told the raiding party that everyday rag pickers arrive at the factory and hand over hundreds of used beer bottles, which are neither cleaned properly and are used to fill sauce and vinegar.
Meanwhile, the raiding team on Wednesday also seized fryums and vermicelli from a factory in Parsakhera area functioning with a proper licence. The team seized items worth Rs 3.80 lakh from the spot and sealed the factory, said Jaiswal.
As per reports, the team raided the premises of a sauce manufacturing company in Hajiyapur locality on Tuesday evening. Seeing the team, workers engaged in preparing and filling the sauce fled from the spot.
"Raw materials like tomatoes and chilli were missing but there were filled bottles of what looked like sauce, kept carelessly in unhygienic condition. The workers were also filling used bottles with acetic acid and labeling it as a local vinegar brand," district food safety officer Ajay Jaiswal told TOI.
"The condition at the factory was very disturbing and absence of raw materials is enough indication that spurious sauce was prepared, which amounts to playing with the lives of people. Moreover, acetic acid, otherwise is used as a preservative, was filled in bottles instead of vinegar, which is shocking. We have collected samples of all the above items and seized products worth several lakhs from the factory. The samples would be sent for testing and case lodged against the factory owner if the test reports state that the samples were unfit for human consumption. The factory has been sealed."
"The team found a white chemical powder in large quantity which they presume was used in preparation of spurious sauce after mixing other chemicals and essence to develop a flavor. The conditions around the factory were very unhygienic with workers engaged in filling the product in bottles which were not even cleaned properly.
Locals told the raiding party that everyday rag pickers arrive at the factory and hand over hundreds of used beer bottles, which are neither cleaned properly and are used to fill sauce and vinegar.
Meanwhile, the raiding team on Wednesday also seized fryums and vermicelli from a factory in Parsakhera area functioning with a proper licence. The team seized items worth Rs 3.80 lakh from the spot and sealed the factory, said Jaiswal.
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