Continuing its drive against unlabelled sweets and ‘farsan’ coming into the State the food safety officers of the Goa Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) confiscated seven parcels containing mawa/kalakanand from the Vasco railways station on Wednesday.
The parcels were brought for delivery to certain sweet mart vendors in Vasco city for preparing sweets ahead of upcoming annual Ganesh festival. The quantity of mawa/ kalakanand brought into Goa via railways was 263 kg, estimated at Rs. 40,000.
The consignment was booked by the Railways from Miraj to Vasco for delivery to certain dairy/sweet marts in Vasco and the FDA was on the look out for such arrival or entry of such consignments into the State for last several days and managed to detain the consignment on a tip off received by the Department. Director of FDA Salim Veljee said on Wednesday evening that the entire consignment did not carry any label disclosing the name and address of the manufacturers, nor any label declaration about its nutritional value, manufacture date, best before use, or other essential labelling requirements prescribed under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
The parcels were brought for delivery to certain sweet mart vendors in Vasco city for preparing sweets ahead of upcoming annual Ganesh festival. The quantity of mawa/ kalakanand brought into Goa via railways was 263 kg, estimated at Rs. 40,000.
The consignment was booked by the Railways from Miraj to Vasco for delivery to certain dairy/sweet marts in Vasco and the FDA was on the look out for such arrival or entry of such consignments into the State for last several days and managed to detain the consignment on a tip off received by the Department. Director of FDA Salim Veljee said on Wednesday evening that the entire consignment did not carry any label disclosing the name and address of the manufacturers, nor any label declaration about its nutritional value, manufacture date, best before use, or other essential labelling requirements prescribed under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
Consignment did not disclose the makers’ name
Mawa
had not been kept in cold storage
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