Food Safety Officers collecting samples from a sweets manufacturing unit
at R.S.Puram in Coimbatore on Monday.
Food Safety Officials on Monday began taking samples
from sweets shops across the district ahead of the festival season of
Deepavali.
Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug
Administration Department (Food Safety Wing) Designated Officer R.
Kathiravan said that this was part of measures to check the quality of
sweets, since this period witnessed a huge surge in sales. The spurt in
demand could lead to deterioration in quality, he said.The samples will
be tested at the Government Food Analysis Laboratory here. If the tests
revealed the quality to be unsatisfactory, improvement notices would be
served on the shops, he said.
Samples will be taken till Deepavali.
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