With Diwali a few hours away, the district health department has embarked on a special drive to check the quality of sweets sold at various stalls across the city.
State health department's food and safety wing on Tuesday conducted raids at four sweet shops and workshop at Sakchi and Jugsalai, keeping in view supplying of adulterated sweetmeats during the festival of Diwali. The shops which were raided at Sakchi include Gokul Sweat Shop on Medicine line and a `khowa' wholesale shop on Tank Road. The team of food and safety wing raided at the workshop of Gangaur Sweets and Chhappan Bhog in Jugsalai.
Revealing about the raids, Dr Gulab lakra, food safety officer who led a two member team said that they had first gone over to the Tin Shed on Tank Road at Sakchi where there were four wholesale Khowa suppliers.
“We have been receiving complaints of food adulteration from these units and have collected samples which would be sent to food testing laboratory at Ranchi today evening,” he said.lakra further added: “We had to conduct raid and take samples of Khowa from all these four shops, but as we started taking samples of the khowa and completing at one the shop, the owners of remaining three shops fled, having downed their shutters.” "At the Gokul Sweat Shop we collected the samples of Kaju Barfi, and Besan ladoo. At Jugsalai also we took the samples of Kaju Barfi, Besan ladoo and Chhana-based sweets from the workshops of Gangaur Sweets and Chhapan Bhog," said the food safety officer.