Adulterated khoya coming surreptitiously: Will eat sweets and gujiyas on Holi, whether it was good or bad, will tell after a month A to Z Counsel

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– Photo: Amar Ujala

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We are not scaring, but what you are eating or going to eat on Holi festival is of quality, adulterated or fake. It will be known only after Holi is over. The quality of the food items whose samples are being taken by the Food Safety Department in the name of a special campaign, will be known only after at least 14 days. Till then the adulterated food items available in the market will be consumed. If you have to be ill, you will have been ill. That is, there is no need to tell how effective this present system of preventing adulteration is.

This time, in three days of the campaign which started from March 1, more than 30 samples including sweets, gujiyas have been taken. But everyone’s report will come only after 14 days. The campaign will continue till March 6. But its results will not be of any use for effective action on adulteration in this Holi.

Experts say that the arrangement should be such that at least those food items which are sold the most in Holi cannot be adulterated. For example khoya, milk, gujiya, sweets, chips, snacks, spices and oil etc.