Margao: A four-member team of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) led by FDA inspector Rajiv Korde on Saturday confiscated 340 kilos of unlabelled mawa at the Margao Konkan Railway station.
The FDA team comprising Korde and food safety officers Flavia D'Costa, Richard Noronha and Madhav Kawalekar, seized the mawa that had arrived by the Goa Express train from Miraj. "The mawa was being transported without any refrigeration facility," said Veljee.
He added, "On August 31, I had written to the South Central Railways as well as the Konkan Railways not to bring food items such as meat and milk-based products which require to be refrigerated at a controlled temperature as the railways do not have any cold storage facilities like an ice-box. Despite writing to them, they still continue to transport food articles which need to be refrigerated. I have also written to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, New Delhi, to take up this issue with the railways ministry."
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