LUCKNOW: Sweets being served by some of the renowned shops in the city are heavily adulterated and spurious a report released by Food Safety and Drug Authority said here on Wednesday.
The FSDA raided on December 30 when six teams went in different directions of the city to assess the quality of sweets being sold in shops. The teams raided nine shops in posh areas and collected 20 samples which were sent for analysis. The results were announced by FSDA commissioner Badal Chatterjee who said, "Eight of the 20 samples failed quality standards and two of the failed samples were found unsafe for consumption."
He added that one of the unsafe samples belonged to a shop in Telibagh area. "Presence of detergent power was detected in khoya barfi samples picked from here," Chatterjee said, adding that other unsafe samples were reported from a popular shop in Hazratganj area. "Chemical colours were used instead of food grade colours to beautify the sweets," the officer told reporters.
Remaining six samples were found substandard. Gomtinagar restaurant and sweet shop was using poor quality deshi ghee and khoya. Similarly, khoya samples from Indiranagar based shops also failed. Bad quality refined oil was being used in a Hazratganj shop. Samples collected from an Aashiana sweet shop faultered on packaging standards. Raids were conducted on bakeries before Christmas.
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