Meerut: With Holi just two days away, the Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FSDA) on Monday raided six sweet shops in the city and rural areas to ensure no adulterated food items were sold. The raids continued till late Monday night and was conducted by a five-member team of FSDA.
"The shops in the city area are generally vigilant about using adulterated food items; but we wanted to check areas on rural front too. Keeping this into consideration, we raided six sweet outlets in city and rural areas both," said JP Singh, chief food safety officer.
Authorities collected as many as 10 samples of milk, milk products and various types of sweets. With gunjiyas, namkeens and cooking oils on their target, the food department has been conducting the anti-adulteration drive since last week.
Four samples of mawa and one sample of curd were taken from Radhe Lal Mawa Bhandaar, Subhash Mawa Bhandaar and Prakash Mawa Bhandaar from Hapur Adda area inside the city. Raids in Khairnagar area led to the sampling of suspected milk and ghee being sold at Shiv Dairy.
"We went to two villages for sampling. While one sample each of rasgulla and a sweet was taken from a shop in Jhasad Sultanpur village of Suroorpur block, one sample of sweet was also collected from a shop in Chirori village of Daurala block," said Singh.
The samples were collected, sealed and sent to Lucknow laboratory - the result of which will come in another month's time. The samples were sent to the capital city to ensure that there was no tampering is done in city-based laboratories.
"Four shops were issued notices after their kitchens were found dirty and food was being prepared in unhealthy conditions. Their kitchens were found to be in filthy conditions. They will be given a certain time period within which they have to improve the cleanliness situation at their bakery; failing which an inquiry will be set up against them, which can even have an impact over their license," said Singh.
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