Ahmedabad: If you plan to buy farsan and sweets for the month of Shravan, beware. You may end up eating 'non-vegetarian' items, as the flying squad officials of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Thursday, found worms in gram flour used to make farsan and sweets.
AMC officials raided sweet and farsan stores across the city on Wednesday and Thursday and 194 notices were issued to shops violating the norms of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) Act.
Standard violations such as vanaspati used in ghee, substandard oil, old flour infected with worms and insects were unearthed by civic body officials.
Suspicious food samples were also collected from 37 such shops in Navrangpura, Satellite, Anandnagar Road, Nikol, Naroda, Naranpura, Stadium Road, Paldi, Sabarmati and Ghodasar among others. These samples have been sent to the public health laboratory for testing.
AMC officials also levied administrative charges of Rs 36,500 on companies violating FSSAI norms. "We found violations in packaging norms, where batch numbers, packaging date, use-by dates and even the list of ingredients were missing from packets," said Rakesh Gamit, food safety officer, AMC.
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