In view of Diwali, the Food Safety Administration team is inspecting food establishments to stop the sale of adulterated food items. In the last 10 days, the team has taken about 100 samples of food items including mawa, cheese, milk products, sweets, namkeen and other food items from 30 establishments.
Those who have been sent to the state level laboratory for testing but their reports will not be received. Due to which it will not be possible to reveal whether these food items are real or fake. On the occasion of Diwali, sweet establishments in the city have prepared various types of sweets and kept them for sale. Customers will remain unaware whether these have been adulterated or not.
Samples have been taken from establishments in the past
Sanchi Parlor & Bakery, Krishna Sweets National Dairy, Kanha Dairy, Raju Namkeen, Agarwal Dairy, Aakash Sweets, Ganpati Bikaner, Rajasthan Sweets, Standard Dairy, Ashok Hotel, RK Namkeen, Bharat Dairy, Jain Food Industries, Chanchal Sweets, Kwality Sweets, Samples of mawa, sweets and other food items have been taken from Rohaid Sweets, Tilakram Sweets, Kuber Dairy, Kwality Sweets, Varsha Sweets, Brij Sweets, Sadguru Grocery and General Store, New Manohar Grocery, Kundan Namkeen, Ganesh Namkeen and DSP Namkeen.
11 samples taken from six establishments on Saturday
On Saturday, the team of Food Safety Administration bought Mawa, Milk Cake from Bikaner Sweets located at Shaitan Singh Market, Shahpura, Badam Barfi, Mawa Barfi from Morena Dairy, Gulab Jamun Mix from Mansharam Grocery located at Berasia, Milk Cake, Pista Barfi from Vanaspati Sonu Restaurant, Raisen Road. A total of 11 samples of Malai Barfi, Namkeen from Bikaner Sweets, Barfi from Shakti Nagar Cuisine Restaurant located in BHEL have been taken and sent to the laboratory.
14 days time, but feels like a month
Samples of mawa, sweets and other substances being taken by the Food Safety Administration team in the district are sent to the laboratory for testing. As per the rules, their test report should be received within 14 days but due to there being only one laboratory and shortage of staff, it takes about a month. Meanwhile, during the festival, all types of food items are sold indiscriminately by traders. Whereas it is not known how much adulteration has been done in them. This is done every year during the festival. Many times it seems as if this food supply is not happening.
