Ludhiana: Be careful of spurious food products in this festive season.
Eight samples of food items and ingredients, collected by the health department in September, were found to be of substandard quality and using fake brands.
The department had collected 160 food samples last month, out of which it has received results of only 30 samples so far.
Out of the failed samples, products including edible salt, mustard oil, cassia, milk cake, dal mungi were found to be using labels of popular brands illegally. Samples of chutney, curd and dhesi ghee were found to be of substandard quality.
Dr Andesh Kang, district health officer, said, "We will send notice where the samples failed. They have to apply for rechecking within a month. And in case they don't reply to our notice, we file a court case."
She said, "We keep shops under scanner and conduct surprise rechecks in the future too."
Food safety officer Yogesh Goal said, "At least 35% of samples fail in the district. Ahead of festive season, adulteration cases increase which is why we go strict in our checking."
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