Bhopal: A team of food and drug administration (FDA) department on Wednesday collected samples of paan (betel leaves) from a paan shop. This is for the first time during the current drive against adulteration that samples of paan, when they were being served to customers, were taken. According to Food Safety Act, serving paan containing tobacco is violation of law.
FDA teams also reverted to sampling of milk and milk products ahead of Navratra beginning on Sunday to see if adulteration in milk and its derivatives has begun again.
FDA teams collected a sample of ghee and two samples of milk from Koh-e-Fiza, one sample of milk from BHEL township, and one sample each of cream, paneer and milk from a dairy in Kotra.
Samples of paan were collected from paan shops in New Market and Mangalwara. Senior food safety officer at Bhopal, D K Verma, said it was for the first time that sample of paan were collected from paan shops in the state in the course of ongoing drive against adulteration. Pouring tobacco in the paan before serving it to a customer was a crime under Food Safety Act.
During the special drive undertaken to check adulteration in food stuff on July 19, FDA teams in Bhopal have collected 274 samples so far. FIR has been registered against 10 manufacturers/traders based on reports of the sample collected from their establishment, notices have been issued to 48 and 3 have been booked under provision of National Security Act (NSA).
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