Nashik, Oct 5:
A Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) team raided Parle
Biscuits Pvt Ltd on the night of October 3 and seized raw material
worth Rs 54.73 lakh, used to make a sugar-boiled confectionery product
called ‘Kaccha Mango Bite’, after kids in Nanded suffered food
poisoning.
Since the FDA team found that ‘Kaccha
Mango Bite’ was being manufactured using lactic acid during inspection,
whose use is illegal for manufacturing edible and eatable products, as
per the Food Safety & Standard Act 2006, it also seized lactic acid
worth Rs 6 lakh, FDA sources told PTI here on Friday.
Situated
at Gondegaon’s Maharashtra Industrial Development Development
Corporation (MIDC) industrial estate near Vadivarhe on the Mumbai-Agra
national highway, in the Igatpuri tehsil, around 22 kms from Nashik, the
plant was raided after some children in Nanded district of Maharashtra
suffered food poisoning after consuming the company’s products.
The
FDA sealed the company’s godown after impounding raw material, lactic
acid stock and stocks of ‘Kaccha Mango Bites’, whose samples have been
sent to Pune for examination, officials said.
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