MOHALI: Following directions from food safety commissioner K S Pannu, the Mohali administration is all set to crack the whip on the sale of adulterated mustard oil in the city.
Mohali deputy commissioner Gurpeet Kaur Sapra said that directions have been given to the food safety teams of the health department to be strict in this regard.
"Commissioner of food and drug administration has warned of strong legal action against people who indulge in adulteration. Many unscrupulous dealers, bottlers and manufacturers mix cheap palm oil, crude rice bran oil and crude soybean oil with mustard oil.
They even add colours and other chemicals. We have given these people a chance to mend ways. Now it is time for them to face action," Sapra said and added that sensitization activities against adulteration had already been conducted.
Meanwhile, commissioner of food and drug administration Kahan Singh Pannu said that that cheaper adulterated mustard oil was harmful for health and impacting sales of genuine mustard oil.
"Mustard is sown in around one lakh acres of land during winter in the state. This gives produce equivalent to 4.8 lakh quintals. It is vital to note that farmers growing mustard get robbed of their genuine profits due to markets being flooded with adulterated mustard oil," Pannu said.
Warning adulterators, Pannu said that committees have been constituted to raid and seize substandard adulterated mustard oil from the units that are involved in such activities. "We will also take legal action against people involved in production of spurious and sub-standard mustard oil.
"No exceptions will be made. Adulteration is not an activity ushered by ignorance, it comes under a well-planned criminal activity," the official added.
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