Jaipur: Suspecting adulteration, health department’s food safety wing, with the help of police, inspected a milk collection centre in Kotputli areas. They destroyed the ‘adulterated’ milk after collecting samples for test on Tuesday. Health department officials along with Paniyala SHO Kishanlal, reached milk collection centre of a private milk producer at Paneda village of Kotputli.
During inspection one Rajesh Kumar Yadav was present who was collecting milk at the centre. When asked about food licence, he showed Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) food registration which was issued for three years on August 10, 2017 on his name.
“There were four cans (tanks) filed with milk with a capacity of 30 litre each at the spot. During inspection, it was suspected that it is adulterated. Yadav’s house was inspected and in a room which was locked from outside, officials found 15kg of skimmed whey powder. A blue coloured plastic tank was also found in which 200 litre of a yellow-coloured sticky substance was found. A sticky oily substance was also found in a 50 litre container and in an open container with capacity of 15 litre,” said Dr Sunil Singh, state nodal officer (food safety), health department.
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