THANE: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Thane seized gutkha worth Rs 72,000 along Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway on Friday.
The officials also conducted a raid on sweet shops in Kalyan and seized huge stocks of adulterated sweets.
A special team of officials from Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Thane, cracked on banned guthka handler in the wee hours of Friday along Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway near Ghodbundar area. FDA squad confiscated guthka worth Rs 72, 000 from a transporter while the tempo loaded with sachets of Goa rocket guthka meant for distribution in Thane city and adjoining areas. Based on the first information report lodged by FDA officers, local police from Valiv outpost arrested the accused Altaf Navaj Pathan.
The team was led by FDA assistant commissioner Pradip Raut which had food safety officers Prashant Deshmukh and Venkatesh Vedpatha. "Acting on a tip off we took position along the highway where the tempo was to be halted to deal with the distributor. We spent all the night from 10pm to 5am to nab the accused, waiting at the designated spot. It was the usual modus operandi by the handler to enter the city in the early hours. These banned products come from neighbouring Gujarat," Raut told ToI.
Thane FDA also conducted another raid on sweet marts in Kalyan area and seized huge stock of unsafe sweets. In the festive move to keep tab on adulteration of sweets, food safety officer B S Vasave conducted raid in Kalyan area and confiscated suspected special barfi worth Rs 60, 000 from two traders after finding it unsafe for consumption. "We took 22 samples from these two shops which found to be mixed, leading to health hazard. We seized the special barfi amounting to the tune of Rs 60, 000," said S K Shere, joint commissioner of FDA, Thane.
The officials also conducted a raid on sweet shops in Kalyan and seized huge stocks of adulterated sweets.
A special team of officials from Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Thane, cracked on banned guthka handler in the wee hours of Friday along Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway near Ghodbundar area. FDA squad confiscated guthka worth Rs 72, 000 from a transporter while the tempo loaded with sachets of Goa rocket guthka meant for distribution in Thane city and adjoining areas. Based on the first information report lodged by FDA officers, local police from Valiv outpost arrested the accused Altaf Navaj Pathan.
The team was led by FDA assistant commissioner Pradip Raut which had food safety officers Prashant Deshmukh and Venkatesh Vedpatha. "Acting on a tip off we took position along the highway where the tempo was to be halted to deal with the distributor. We spent all the night from 10pm to 5am to nab the accused, waiting at the designated spot. It was the usual modus operandi by the handler to enter the city in the early hours. These banned products come from neighbouring Gujarat," Raut told ToI.
Thane FDA also conducted another raid on sweet marts in Kalyan area and seized huge stock of unsafe sweets. In the festive move to keep tab on adulteration of sweets, food safety officer B S Vasave conducted raid in Kalyan area and confiscated suspected special barfi worth Rs 60, 000 from two traders after finding it unsafe for consumption. "We took 22 samples from these two shops which found to be mixed, leading to health hazard. We seized the special barfi amounting to the tune of Rs 60, 000," said S K Shere, joint commissioner of FDA, Thane.
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