Food Safety Administration team inspecting the salty shop.
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The team seized 130 packets of salty snacks while taking samples. Suspended the license of the establishment and restricted its business.
Navdunia Representative, Bhopal. During the festive season, old food products are also sold in the market by the traders. Many times such food products are also found being sold which have expired. To prevent this, the team of the Food Safety Administration Department visits the market from time to time and conducts inspections.
A similar case came to light in an establishment named Manpasand Namkeen located in Arera Colony, where the problem was detected by the Food Department team. During inspection, the team found that the production date was being hidden in this establishment by pasting stickers on food packets. After this, the Food Safety Administration team confiscated the packets of snacks and also banned the business.
In fact, the Food Safety Administration had received a complaint that vendors were selling salty packets with stickers even after the expiry date. On the instructions of Collector Kaushalendra Vikram Singh, the team inspected Manpasand Namkeen House located at E-7 Arera Colony on Wednesday. Where 130 packets of Apna Namkeen were being sold by the seller by pasting stickers on the production date and expiry date.
Also similar salty packets were stored. The team seized 130 packets of salty snacks while taking samples. Besides, the food license of the establishment has been suspended and business has been restricted.
These establishments were also inspected
Food Safety Officer Devendra Kumar Dubey said that salty factories and sales centers were inspected on Wednesday. In these, samples of namkeen, essential oil, gram flour and spices have been taken from Motilal Bhujiawala, Kanhaiya Namkeen, Amit Namkeen based in Govindpura, Gokuldham Dairy based in Karond, Sanjay Sweets, Shri Krishna Gaurav Sweets and Namkeen based in Saketnagar, Bikaner Sweet Store. He said that on the occasion of Diwali, action will be taken to continuously collect samples of namkeen and sweets which are manufactured and sold in large quantities.