Tag: Food and Drug Administration

Punjab: FDA steps to check sale of flour ‘unfit’ for human consumption

With over two tonne of rotten, foul smelling wheat recovered from a flour mill in Ludhiana, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Punjab has ordered steps to check the sale of flour ‘unfit for human consumption’. The FDA commissioner KS Pannu on Friday said one may opt out of fruits, sweets or paneer (cheese) out of …

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September 22, 2018

Punjab: After FDA raids, rise in applications for FBO licenses

Pannu informed that 4518 applications for licence or registration as an FBO have been received by the department just in a month.

September 14, 2018

Punjab: FDA crackdown on mustard oil adulterators after warning

Days after Punjab Food and Drug Administration (FDA), warned against mustard oil adulteration, FDA’s food safety teams have conducted raids across the state to check mustard oil adulterators. Divulging into details, FDA commissioner KS Pannu said the Fazilka Food Safety Team in a raid at NG Oil Mill, Abohar found impure mustard oil to the …

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September 12, 2018

Punjab: Drive against spurious products continues

Continuing its drive against spurious food and milk products, Punjab’s food safety teams made a big haul by nailing two tankers carrying suspected refined palm oil of 28 metric tonne (MT) and 27 MT each. About 1602 litres of cooking medium, 930 kilogram (kg) vanaspati and 800 litres refined soyabean oil was also seized along …

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September 8, 2018