Bhopal: Continuing its crackdown against adulteration, a team of food and drug administration (FDA) on Monday, inspected the fruits and edibles being sold at a city mall and collected samples.
While inspecting a store at the mall, the team found that apples with wax coating are being sold, without any disclaimer or label indicating the same.
Senior food safety officer from Bhopal, DK Verma, said that the Food Safety Act makes it mandatory for a seller to declare to the customers that the fruits being sold are wax-coated.
Only three types of wax are permitted on fruits — bees wax, carnauba wax and shellac wax. Use of paraffin wax is banned, he said.
The store selling the wax-coated apples admitted to the mistake and immediately put up a display board after the inspection. Samples were collected to check the purity of ghee and besan ladoos being sold at the store, said an official. FDA has also started inspecting shops selling non-vegetarian food products. Verma said, sale of a few species of fish is banned during monsoon.
Information on sshops selling those species would be sent to the fisheries department, he said. A second FDA team, meanwhile, was collecting samples of paneer and ghee from Kolar.
Officials said, Rajeev Gupta, owner of a chilling plant at Lahar in Bhind district, who was absconding ever since his plant was raided by the Special Task Force (STF) on July 19, surrendered before a civil court on Monday. The court ordered his arrest and handed him over to STF on remand till September 12.
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