Vijayawada: Food safety officials along with legal metrology sleuths conducted a simultaneous raid at a private food company and caught them in possession of adulterated ice-cream stocks at Bhavanipuram area in the city, on Friday.
The raids were led by Krishna district joint collector Kritika Shukla at Sri Sai Maruthi Milk Products, in Gollapudi and Sri Guru Venkateswara Food Products, in Bhavanipuram. Officials said that they acted upon several complaints by consumers against these two companies.
Assistant food controller N Purnachandra Rao said that the ice creams contained high dose of synthetic colours and other electrolysis chemical powders. Officials also added that the products were manufactured under unhygienic conditions. They were packed without the requisite manufacturing date labels which is a violation of the Legal Metrology Act. Around eight samples of different ice cream varieties were collected and sent for testing to a FSSAI lab.
While addressing the media, Kritika Shukla said that stringent action would be taken against manufacturers, if they fail to meet the requisite FSSAI norms and also cautioned consumers to check the labels and be wary before providing ice-creams to their children.
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