Lucknow: UP Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) on Thursday carried out checking of vehicles carrying sweets and namkeen at 12 toll plazas and major intersections, destroying about 60 quintals of food items stored or being transported in unsafe and unhygienic conditions.FSDA also suspended licences of 32 establishments and shut down their businesses over serious irregularities.A spokesperson said that around 48 vehicles carrying food items were examined. In the two major hauls, about 22 quintals of foul-smelling khoya was seized in Kanpur Nagar and in Hapur, about 28 quintals of paneer being transported in unhygienic conditions was caught. In Mau, 230 kg of unsafe khoya was recovered, while in Rampur, 350 lt of milk was caught being transported in unhygienic conditions. Paneer was also seized in Barabanki, Unnao and Gautam Budh Nagar.“A raid was conducted at the hideout of a food trader in Moradabad who had previously been banned, and adulterants and chemicals used for adulterating food items were recovered. An FIR has been registered in this case,” said the official.In addition to this, 32 mobile food squads carried out special enforcement in Bareilly, Moradabad, Kasganj, Etawah, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Kushinagar and Shahjahanpur.Extreme filth was found at a sweet manufacturing unit in Bareilly. A toilet was operating next to the furnace used for making sweets. The floor was broken and the premises were flooded with contaminated water. At another sweet shop, old and mouldy ghevar was found. Sweets were being made in unhealthy conditions amid filth.At a rasgulla manufacturing unit in Moradabad, food items were being made in unsafe conditions. At another sweet shop, expired food items were being used in food preparation. Other serious deficiencies were also found at the unit, including the presence of rats, use of non-edible colours, and the lack of proper drainage.A sweet shop in Moradabad was found operating without a food licence. A rat infestation and extreme filth were found at the unit.
