Bhopal: Officials of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) department will cover all sweets shops to collect samples before Diwali.
Senior food safety officer, Bhopal, D K Verma, said that samples would be collected from all sweets shops before Diwali to ensure that adulterated sweets are not sold for the festival of lights.
On Monday, FDA officials collected seven samples of packed sweets and namkeen from the godown of the super stockist of a company at Govindpura, which sells a variety of packed sweets and namkeen items in the form of gift packs on Diwali.
An FDA team collected samples of rasgulla, gulab jamun, Sonpapdi, Rajbhog and papad from the godown, which would be sent to the laboratory to test their quality. The FDA team also seized 10 packets of amchur, 15 bottles of lime juice and four packets of ajwain, which were beyond their expiry date. The FDA team destroyed all the stuff in the godown that was beyond their expiry date.
An FDA team also raided a sweets manufacturing factory in Govindpura on a tip-off. During the raid, it was revealed that sweets and namkeen in the factory were being manufactured for a sweets shop in Piplani. The team collected five samples of Kaju Katli, Malai Burfi, saltless mathari, gulab jamun and namkeen from the factory for testing.
The FDA also appealed to manufacturers and traders to use quality ingredients to manufacture sweets and namkeen items for sale in the festival season, not to use adulterated or substandard things to prepare sweets or namkeen, not to store stale edible goods, not to sell anything unsafe for human consumption. The officials said that if anyone is caught selling adulterated, impure or substandard edible goods, he would face strict action under the provisions of Food Security Act.
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