Gujarat State Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) seized 567 litres of adulterated ghee (clarified butter) and 3,849 kg sweets collectively worth Rs 9.29 lakh after raiding two manufacturing units in Banaskantha district.
While adulterated ghee worth Rs 2.49 lakh was seized from the premises of a food products firm in Deesa town, sweets worth Rs 6.80 lakh, made from adulterated ‘mawa’ (condensed milk), were recovered from the premises of a dairy products unit in Palanpur town on Saturday, an official release said.
“To monitor the movement of officials in the area, the owner of the food products unit had installed CCTV cameras 500 meters away from the premises,” said FDCA commissioner, HG Koshia.