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Ahmedabad Intensifies Festival Food Checks, Seals Two Units
The Ahmedabad civic body is checking food shops before the festival season.
Workers use quick tests to look for unsafe or fake ingredients.
They check sweets, snacks, dairy foods and other products.
One kaju katri sweet appeared to have foil made from a metal other than silver.
Officials traced the sweet to a manufacturing unit and sealed it.
They also sealed another godown because it had no food-safety licence and poor hygiene.
Quick tests are only an early warning, so some samples may go to a laboratory.
Businesses have been told to use approved ingredients and follow food-safety rules.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has conducted rapid food-safety tests at 22 food units.
Checks cover sweets, farsan, dairy products, paneer, cheese, biscuits and cookies.
Officials test for non-silver foil, prohibited colours, starch, vegetable fats and fake saffron.
A kaju katri test indicated that its foil was made from a metal other than silver.
The AMC sealed the linked manufacturing unit and a godown lacking an FSSAI licence and adequate hygiene.
- Who
- The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Food Department and food businesses in the city.
- What
- The AMC intensified food-safety inspections, conducted rapid tests at 22 units and sealed two establishments.
- Where
- Across Ahmedabad, including locations near Kalupur Gate, Bapunagar and Vadigam in Dariapur.
- When
- During the festival season and in the period leading up to it.
- Why
- To screen food for adulteration and enforce licensing, hygiene and food-safety requirements.
Key facts
- Inspections conducted
- Rapid-kit tests at 22 food units
- Sealed establishments
- Two units were sealed after violations were detected.
- Primary kaju katri finding
- The foil appeared to be made from a metal other than silver.
- Licence violation
- Shri Balaji Mavawala's godown lacked an FSSAI licence.
- Hygiene violation
- The same godown was found to have inadequate hygienic conditions.
- Products tested
- Sweets, namkeen and farsan, biscuits, cookies, paneer and cheese.
- Follow-up action
- Suspected violations may lead to laboratory testing and further legal action.
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