Bhopal: MP food and drug administration (FDA) officials carried out more raids on private milk supplier, here on Wednesday. In the last few days, 10 samples from milk dairies Rajhans Dairy products have failed laboratory tests.
After one milk sample was found to contain detergent, the proprietor of Rajhans, Ish Arora was booked under National Security Act (NSA) on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, morning with help of district administration team, FDA sleuths raided the outlet of another milk manufacturer in Bhopal. Milk samples were taken from Mohan Dairy at Minal where in about 125 litres of milk as confiscated. Sample of milk, cheese and other products have also been taken for laboratory test.
The tests are undertaken by MPFDA food testing laboratory at Idgah Hills.
A report on tests is expected to take about four days. Till now, more than 200 tests have been undertaken on food products in Bhopal. It comes on heels on MP government’s ‘Shuddh ke liye Yuddh’ campaign launched in the state against the manufacturers and sellers of adulterated food. Meanwhile, Congress on Wednesday accused former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of protecting food adulterators during his regime as CM and said he had written to the prime minister not to enforce Food Safety Act.
Reacting to Chouhan’s statement that he was with the Congress government in its drive against food adulteration, state Congress media vice-president, Abhay Dubey, said that during 15 years of his rule, food adulterators had no fear of law. Besides writing to the Prime Minister, he also supported strike of traders against the Act.
His government also gave an affidavit in the apex court assuring that section 272 of the IPC would be amended to provide life imprisonment to persons found guilty of food adulteration, something which it never did.There was only one food lab in the state and it was the reason why from 2016 to 2018, 13,000 samples could not be tested at all. On the contrary, Kamal Nath government has shown firm political will to take on the menace of food adulteration and book offenders under NSA.
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