70-kg sweets destroyed

Nawanshahr, October 14

Cracking heavily on sweet shops, in the wake of the festive season, district SBS Nagar Food Safety team collected seven samples, besides getting 70 kg of sweets destroyed.

Manoj Khosla, Assistant Commissioner (Food), said Food Safety Officer Sangeeta Sehdev and he inspected several sweet shops at Banga and Gunachaur and took seven samples of coloured sweets and khoya-based sweets such as pink cham cham, khoya burfi, kalakand, milk cake, rasgulla and gulab jamuns. They destroyed about 70-kg of gulab jamun and pink cham cham as they were unfit for consumption.

Notices were also issued to four shops for not complying with the parameters laid under the Food Safety Act. Sehdev said violators would be dealt with iron hands as per law. Earlier, a special naka was also set up at Banga to check the supply of spurious food items coming from other states/districts. — TNS