FDA confiscates sub-standard food brought for Carnival

Cases are booked against a Madgao-based vendor and Aurangabad-based supplier. It included items like samosas to chips to padi. FDA says these items could cause cancer.

 The FDA team led by Senior Food Safety Officer Rajiv Korde confiscated food items brought into a bus by a Madgao vendor Amit Mishra and supplied by Natural Food Products of Aurangabad in Maharashtra.

The items included Samosas, Tomato Sticks Rolls, SezwanSticks, PalakChips, Potato Chips, and Tomato Padpi.

The 400 kilograms of food items are worth over one lakh rupees. The FDA has booked both the parties.

The FDA has detained local vendor Amit Mishra from Madgao. But he claims that he was not aware that the food items are sub-standard and mis-branded.