Bhopal: As the festival season reaches its peak, the food standards & safety department has intensified its vigilance on the quality of milk-made products like mawa, sweets, and paneer being brought into the market for sale. The quality of namkeens of different varieties, which are also sold in large quantities during the festival season and otherwise, is also the focus of food safety officials.
On Friday, Koh-e-Fiza police intercepted a car carrying 1.5 quintals of paneer. The paneer was being transported to Ashok Nagar from Sehore. It was sent from Sehore by Amjad for delivery at Ashok Nagar. After being informed, food safety officials reached the spot, and since there was no one else available in the car, the car driver, Yakoob Shah, was asked to provide samples of paneer for testing at the lab. The paneer will be kept in cold storage until the test report is received and the quality of the product is ascertained.
On Thursday, a team of food safety officials searched a snacks shop in E-7 Arera Colony, and the licence of the shop was suspended after it was found that the proprietor put his own stickers on 130 packets of a namkeen brand, showing a different date of manufacturing and expiry on the original one. Senior Food Safety Official posted at the headquarters of the Food Safety Office in Bhopal, D K Verma, while talking to TOI, said, “We are on alert. Our campaign against the supply of adulterated edible goods was already continuing. In the wake of the festival season, we have sought help from the police, and we are also taking help from informers this time. Vigil on the borders is being maintained to check the quality of goods like mawa and paneer being brought into the city or being sent outside. We have also sought help from the general public on social media; they can inform us if they find the quality of anything sold to them suspect.”
Verma said that there is an obvious reason to suspect that the quality of milk-made products is compromised during the festival season as demands for mawa, sweets, and paneer shoot up, but the supply of milk remains the same. “They may not always sell goods adulterated to an extent that your health is affected, but the use of milk powder or edible oil for manufacturing paneer or anything else can’t be ruled out. It may not make you ill, but you don’t get the nutrients or taste that you should. Some traders also eye greater profit and collude in the sale of spurious goods,” Verma said.
Bhopal: As the festival season reaches its peak, the food standards & safety department has intensified its vigilance on the quality of milk-made products like mawa, sweets, and paneer being brought into the market for sale. The quality of namkeens of different varieties, which are also sold in large quantities during the festival season and otherwise, is also the focus of food safety officials.
On Friday, Koh-e-Fiza police intercepted a car carrying 1.5 quintals of paneer. The paneer was being transported to Ashok Nagar from Sehore. It was sent from Sehore by Amjad for delivery at Ashok Nagar. After being informed, food safety officials reached the spot, and since there was no one else available in the car, the car driver, Yakoob Shah, was asked to provide samples of paneer for testing at the lab. The paneer will be kept in cold storage until the test report is received and the quality of the product is ascertained.
On Thursday, a team of food safety officials searched a snacks shop in E-7 Arera Colony, and the licence of the shop was suspended after it was found that the proprietor put his own stickers on 130 packets of a namkeen brand, showing a different date of manufacturing and expiry on the original one. Senior Food Safety Official posted at the headquarters of the Food Safety Office in Bhopal, D K Verma, while talking to TOI, said, “We are on alert. Our campaign against the supply of adulterated edible goods was already continuing. In the wake of the festival season, we have sought help from the police, and we are also taking help from informers this time. Vigil on the borders is being maintained to check the quality of goods like mawa and paneer being brought into the city or being sent outside. We have also sought help from the general public on social media; they can inform us if they find the quality of anything sold to them suspect.”
Verma said that there is an obvious reason to suspect that the quality of milk-made products is compromised during the festival season as demands for mawa, sweets, and paneer shoot up, but the supply of milk remains the same. “They may not always sell goods adulterated to an extent that your health is affected, but the use of milk powder or edible oil for manufacturing paneer or anything else can’t be ruled out. It may not make you ill, but you don’t get the nutrients or taste that you should. Some traders also eye greater profit and collude in the sale of spurious goods,” Verma said.
