The Food Safety Department team is gearing up to not allow adulterated food items to be sold on Diwali. The team raided an oil mill in Raghuveer Puri and seized 450 kg of mustard oil on suspicion of adulteration. At the same time, 230 kg of sweets at a sweet seller at Khair confiscated.
District designated officer Sarvesh Mishra said that under the leadership of Chief Food Safety Officer Akshay Pradhan, a sample of mustard oil and palmolein oil was collected from Jai Durga Traders located at Shyam Sundar Mill Compound Raghuvir Puri.
Also 450 kg mustard oil has been seized on suspicion of adulteration. A sample of Son Papadi from Sweet Palace Sweet located at Madar Gate and one sample each of Rasgulla and Barfi is filled from the workshop of Saraswat Ji's Sweet Shop. A sample of milk has been filled from the shop of Lokesh Yadav located at Achal Tal. At the same time, under the leadership of Food Safety Officer Kripa Shankar, 2 samples of Chhena and one Kesarbati and one adulterant have been taken from Kushwaha Mishthan Bhandar Block Colony, Khair Road, Khair. Also, 230 kg adulterated sweets have been destroyed. Its price turned out to be around Rs 46000. Along with this, a sample of mixed milk has been taken from Pawan Dairy of Pawan Kumar son of Ram Singh, resident of Gadrana.
At the same time, the third team reached village Nagla Tula in Vijaygarh area under the direction of food safety officer Syed Abdullah. Here a sample of Mawa from Satyendra Pal's Mava manufacturing unit, a sample of Mawa from Vijaygarh-based Dhirendra Kumar's Mawa manufacturing unit, a sample of sweets from Hori Lal's sweets manufacturing unit at Dinawarli, was taken. A sample of oil has been stored. All samples have been sent for testing. The three teams who took action included Food Safety Officer Anil Kumar Singh, Manoj Kumar Saroj, Jawaharlal, Omvir Singh, Pramod Kumar, Prabhu Chaudhary, Ajay Kumar Verma, Bhagwat Singh, Rajiv Kumar Singh, Amar Bahadur.