Meerut: Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) department's drive to check adulteration during the festive season entered its second day on Saturday with officials inspecting a number of shops in the cantonment area. The drive on Saturday saw a team of FSDA, Cantt board officials collecting sweet samples from various shops.
Samples of Revdi, Laddu and Gajjak were collected, starting from one of the famous Revdi-Gajjak shop of Ramchandra Sahai at Abulane.
"We collected samples of Gajjak rolls, Revdi, cashew Gajjak from Ramchandra Sahai's shop as well as Deewan Chand Revdi shop at Abulane. Besides, we also collected samples of biscuits and rusks from Alfa bakery and samples of coloured Chhena from Ramnath and Bundi Laddu from Bharat sweet shop at Sadar Bazaar," said JP Singh, chief food safety officer.
He added that reports of the same are likely to be out in 15 days. Prodded on how the report, which would be out after the festive season is over, would help the present consumers, Singh said that he could only follow government instructions and nothing more.
"There is a lab in Meerut but these samples are not sent there as the local traders can influence the reports. So we sent the samples at Lucknow," he added.
Singh said that there were six such laboratories in the state, including Meerut lab, the nearest lab being stationed at Agra. However, since the Meerut commissionery falls under the jurisdiction of Lucknow lab, the samples are sent to the Lucknow lab.
FSDA, under the guidelines set by district magistrate Pankaj Yadav, launched a drive on Friday to curb the sale of adulterated edible items. On the first day, the drive conducted surprise checks on restaurants and dairy shops.
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