Unit producing spurious ghee raided in Surajpole

JAIPUR: The chief medical health office continues to expose the adulterated food items in the city. On Saturday late evening, a team raided a compound and caught people red-handed while manufacturing spurious

ghee

in Surajpole Bazaar. The team seized the items used for making spurious ghee including 50 kg adulterated ghee, 300 kg vanaspati refined

soybean

oil, butter flavour, packing machine, wrappers of an established ghee brand.

Food safety

officer said that spurious ghee is being manufactured by mixing soy bean refined oil added with a butter flavour. The firm owner has been identified as Motilal Agarwal. “The adulterated ghee is hazardous for health,” said an investigating officer, who informed TOI that the culprits were manufacturing ghee on demand basis.

“The preliminary investigation reveals that they prepare ghee when they receive order from the market, especially for marriages and parties,” said the officer. The brand they were using was Krishna Pure Ghee which is a violation of a Copyright Act and the company concerned will be informed about the misuse of their brand. The team was astonished to learn that compound was located amid the densely populated area despite the neighbours were not aware of unit.

The manufacturers had sold the adulterated ghee at Sikandra, Tonk and

Dausa

. “The receipts revealed that they had sold the spurious ghee at these places and also had offers from several other places,” said the official. The raid was carried out after a tip-off was passed to the team. The Food Safety Team has come heavily down on the adulterated food mafia in the city. In the last 15 days, they have raided units of adulterated pulses, peas, almonds, cashews etc.