Ahead of the festival of the Raksha Bandan, the district food safety department has started a drive against food adulteration. On Wednesday the Food safety officer Sanjay Singh carried raids at more than a dozen premises and took samples of milk and sweets. The Inspection were carried out to check compliance of hygiene and quality of raw materials, finished sweet and dairy products exhibited for sale. The team collected two samples of milk, ghewer (Sweet) and sent it to the lab of the department for analysis. The designated officer, Food safety G C Kandwwl said that department officers will continue to carry sudden inspection in different part of district in coming days and the pace will be increased so that they can check all major sweets and dairy shops. He requested consumers not to buy sweets which are loaded with colours and sweets kept in poor storage condition and especially milk based sweets not kept in temperature controlled refrigerator.