AGRA: Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) officials seized more than 300 litres of adulterated milkand arrested two persons on Tuesday.
The officials swooped down on Nari village of Dauki policejurisdiction led by designated officer Vineet Kumar of FSDA. After taking samples, the officials dumped the seized milk packets.
"The tainted milk packets were made of liquid detergent, soyabean oil, mahua oil, glucose, maltose powder and several other chemicals," said Kumar, one of the officers involved in the raid.
"We have seized four litres of detergent liquid, 15 litres of chemical, 300 litres of adulterated synthetic milk, 15 litres of mahua oil, 30 liters of soyabean oil from the private diary farm," he said. "The raid was conducted on minister's order to rein in food adulteration," he added.
The FSDA lodged a complaint against Darelal and Naresh and handed them over to police.
Remote areas like Dauki, Kheragarh are huge market of synthetic/adulterated milk production. The adulterated milk market becomes active days ahead of any festival. Milk products from here are sold to nearby districts such as Mathura, Firozabad, Faridabad and Delhi.
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