Meerut: With Diwali around the corner, the Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FSDA) has started working on ensuring that city residents do not fall prey to adulterated sweets and other food items consumed during the festive season.
The officials of the food safety body have seized as many as 41 suspected samples of food items in the five-day long drive.
“We have taken as many as 41 samples of food items from various sweet shops over the last five days. We also destroyed 125kg rasbhari, 60kg of sweet cake and 1 quintal coloured sweets to safeguard people from consuming adulterated food items,” said Archana Dheeran, designated officer, FSDA, Meerut unit.
FSDA teams are conducting regular raids at sweet shops and have also been conducting awareness programmes at schools, colleges and NGOs in Meerut.
“Our main focus has been towards sweets, mawa, khoya and food colour being used in sweets. We have destroyed the food items which looked adulterated, and took samples of those which were suspected,” said Dheeran.
“The samples have been sent to the Lucknow laboratory and the report will come in a month’s time based on which we will take action as per the law,” Dheeran added.
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