Beware of adulterated sweet
Posted on: 18/Oct/2013 11:23:49 AM
Look before you leap is a proverb. While buying sweets for Deepavali see that you are not cheated by the sweet shops. Consumers need to be alert when buying sweets as many shops use poor quality oil or vanaspati to prepare the so-called ghee sweets. The shelf life of these sweets is very little.
Food safety officials, who are keeping a strict watch on the quality of sweets and savouries being prepared for Deepavali at various foodstalls in the city, warn that adulterants and poor quality oil are often used to cut down costs.
On Thursday some of the 25 officials conducting raids on sweet stalls, took six samples of wheat halwa, badhusha and milk sweets from shops in Aminjikarai and inspected their manufacturing units on a complaint from an insurance agent, G. Marimuthu, who claimed the sweets he bought from a shop, Parvathi Bhavan in Aminjikarai on the occasion of Ayudha pooja had made his friends sick.
Food safety official Lakshmi Naryanan says that based on the agent’s complaint, samples of sweets were taken from the shop for testing.
Food safety officials who receive complaints on the helpline, 9842156266, have conducted some 15 inspections every month this year, seizing among other things, huge quantities of adulterants of tea dust and substandard water packets.
