Indore (Madhya Pradesh): To ensure safe and good-quality food items for people, Food Safety Department took another major action on Tuesday and seized mawa, sweets and ghee all worth Rs 12.64 lakh from two buses. The sample were collected by the officials in the presence of the owners.
Under the guidance of the district collector Shivam Verma, the team of the department carried out a special drive. Acting on a specific information that food items were being supplied to the city from outside the district through buses parked at Baba Travels and Express Cargo near Pipliyahana Square, the officers reached the mentioned place early in the morning and inspected the premises.
During inspection, they found around 640 kilograms of mawa being transported from Gwalior in a Sharad Travels bus.
In another bus, Veer Travels coming from Ahmedabad, officers found around 1800 kilograms of sweets and halwa in various polybags and 68 boxes (about 1,000 litres) of ghee.
Samples of six ghee boxes, three types of sweets and two mawa packets were collected in the presence of the owners. The value of the total seized items is about Rs 12.64 lakh.
All samples have been sent to the State Food Testing Laboratory in Bhopal for examination. Further action will be taken based on the test reports.
