Are your Diwali sweets safe? Shocking food adulteration cases uncovered in Noida, Ghaziabad!
food safety departments in Ghaziabad and Noida are conducting intensified inspections at food outlets and sweet shops to combat rising incidents of food adulteration. This proactive approach is essential as the festive season often sees a spike in the demand for sweets, increasing the potential for unsafe food practices, as reported by TOI.
Recent Findings and Actions
Sarvesh Mishra, assistant commissioner (Food) II, Gautam Budh Nagar, reported that during a routine inspection on Saturday, officials collected samples of ghee and besan laddu from a sweets factory in Sector 155, Noida. Approximately 45 kg of contaminated sweets were destroyed during this inspection. On Friday, over 200 kg of rasgullas were discarded after insects were found floating in them in Greater Noida. In addition, 20 kg of paneer with a foul odour was destroyed after samples were taken for testing.
«The food safety department is conducting pre-festival checks on commonly adulterated items like khoya, milk, ghee, and sweets, with three teams inspecting food shops across the district,» Mishra stated. During inspections at a Sector 68 sweet shop in Noida, officials discovered insects in a drum of rasgullas, which led to the destruction of the remaining 200 kg. In a sweets manufacturing site in Patwari village, Greater Noida West, 55 kg of chena sweets were also destroyed due to adulteration.
On Thursday, officials confiscated 100 kg of adulterated khoya, a crucial ingredient for many sweets, at the market located on main Kasna Road in Sirsa,
