AMC team seize analogue barfi from a cold storage in Gomtipur
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s health and food department seized around 40,500kg of a suspected mawa substitute, which the AMC has called ‘barfi’, found at a cold storage facility in Gomtipur on Wednesday. The stock, estimated at Rs 60.8 lakh, was packed in 1,380 sacks weighing 30kg each. The company had stored 40,500kg of mawa under the names of Rajwadi Sweet and Indian Dessert.
For consumers, that could mean paying the price of a traditional mawa sweet without it containing mawa at all,” a senior health department official said. “Of this, nearly 80% of the stock belonged to 15 big vendors,” said the official, adding: “Six samples were collected to test the quality of mawa from Hasmukhbhai Mawawala, Tulsi Mawa Centre, Rajwadi Sweet (Bajrangi), Indian Dessert (Nilkanth), Purohit Mawawala and S K Mawawala. The official said, “The maximum stock in this cold storage belonged to a company named Radhika Food Products. If test results do not prove the product’s authenticity, the stock will be destroyed and action will be taken against the company, said the official.
“To make cheap sweets in the city, products like analogue barfi, similar to analogue paneer, are being used instead of mawa, and they are sold as mawa too. None of these sacks mentioned a batch number or expiry date. Hence, we stopped the suspicious stock from being sold. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Ahmedabad | Silver Rate in Ahmedabad | Bank Holidays in Ahmedabad | Public Holidays in Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad AQI | Weather in Ahmedabad | Petrol Price in Ahmedabad | Diesel Price in Ahmedabad | CNG Price in Ahmedabad | LPG Price in Ahmedabad
