Two flour mills seized for selling semolina in gram flour packets

JAIPUR: Two flour mills owned by a businessman were seized as he was allegedly selling gram flour, which was actually a mixture of semolina, corn flour and gram flour. The health department officials seized 4,500 kg of flour.

Health department’s food safety wing conducted inspection in Ramganj area on Tuesday. They found that a businessman was allegedly selling gram flour packets. But, when the food safety officers checked it, they found that gram flour was just five percent, while 60% content was semolina and 35% content was corn flour. The health department officials said that though the other contents they found in the packets, which was being sold as gram flour, were edible but the owner has cheated his customers. “The prices of Semolina are much lesser than the prices of gram flour. To make more money, the owner was mixing cheap semolina in gram flour and he was selling it as gram flour packet,” said a health department official.

Besides, the firm has food licence for wholesale but it did not have the manufacturing and packing licence of food products. Officials said that he was supplying his products in Bandikui and Uniyara.