Expired soft drinks of several leading brands that were on sale in different shops in Vellore were destroyed on Thursday.
In view of death of a Cuddalore girl after consuming soft drink of a leading brand recently, food safety officials in Vellore district started crackdown on soft drinks that bear the same batch number of the bottle the girl reportedly consumed.
The team of officials checked lots of shops in new bus stand, a godown of a stockist of the beverage, shops in Tirupatthur, Jolarpet, Arcot and Ranipet.
Though they were on lookout for the soft drink bottles bearing the same batch number that was allegedly responsible for the death of the girl, they found and destroyed large number of expired soft drink bottles.
Worth of the soft drinks destroyed on Thursday is reportedly around Rs. 10,000.
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