Rajkot: Intensifying their crackdown on inedible items of bakeries, the health department of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) destroyed 238kg of cakes, breads, biscuits and chocolates in different bakeries of the city on Saturday.
Earlier, on Thursday, the RMC had destroyed 312kg of bakery items infested with insects.
The shops that were raided and where bakery items were destroyed were Bake House near Kotecha Chowk (38kg of stale cake base, expired cookies and chocolate compound), Sharda Bakers near Hanuman Madhi Chowk (47kg of expired chocolate balls, gems, toasts and biscuits), Hind Bakery in Bajarangwadi locality (53kg of expired bread and chocolate, Gujarat Bakery in Sanjaynagar on Jamnagar Road (26kg of bread kept in open), JB Bakery in Bajarangwadi (42kg of bread without best before use date) and Jalaram Bakery in Junction Plot (32kg of bread without best before use date).
“According to the Food Safety and Standard Act 2006, bakers are not supposed to exceed the use of food colour beyond 100 PPM, they are not allowed to use artificial sweetener, tagging is compulsory for them, storing cakes in a prescribed temperature is compulsory for them, they are not allowed to use pieces of fruits in cakes, they are supposed to segregate veg and non-veg cakes and are prohibited from using potassium bromide,” said RMC health official Pankaj Rathod.
The drive against inedible items of bakeries has been intensified, considering the approaching festival of Christmas and New Year, he added.
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