Ahmedabad: The civic body tightened checks on food units ahead of Diwali, fining four sweet and farsan outlets and sealing two others on Wednesday. The four penalised outlets lacked kits that allow customers to test food items themselves. One sealed unit was found using frying oil with a TPC level of 27.5. Sauce samples from another unit were declared substandard or adulterated.Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) health and food department penalised Ambika Sweet and Farsan in Jodhpur, Gopi and Sweet in Vastral, Ambika Sweet and Farsan in Naroda and Panjiri Mithai in Naranpura and collectively collected Rs 40,000.The department also sealed a unit named ‘Bhajiya Pakoda’ in Naranpura after the total polar compounds (TPC) level in the oil used for frying food was found to be 27.5 during testing. TPC is used to assess the quality of repeatedly heated cooking oil.Bharat Food in Vatva was also sealed after three samples of various sauces collected earlier from the unit were declared substandard or adulterated.Ahead of Diwali, the department also collected 23 food samples from 18 units across the city on Wednesday. The samples have been sent to a food laboratory for testing.
