155 bottles of non-alcoholic Chinese drink without expiry dates seized
| Date :28-Aug-2020 |
Food safety officers while raiding a private godown in Idgah Hills in the State capital.
Staff Reporter ;
A joint team of Food Safety Department and Bhopal Crime Branch have found 155 bottles of a non-alcoholic Chinese drink without expiry dates on them from a trader in Idgah Hills in Bhopal. Samples of these bottled drinks have been sent to the State Food Testing Laboratory by the department officials, reports of which are expected to come within two weeks. Meanwhile, the cops suspect that the trader was about to sell them in the market.
The Food Safety Department confiscated a total of 580 cartons (13,920 bottles) of the drink. The Crime Branch received a tip off that Budweiser beer bottles of expired dates are ready to be sold in the market and the team swung into action and raided the godown at 6 pm with food safety officers. During the raid it was found that the drink contains only 0.5% of alcohol and the Police Department handed the case to FDA. The police did not even register a case and according to the police, 220 more bottles which were expired were found.
Chief Food Safety Officer D K Verma informed that a Mumbai-based businessman from Andheri used to buy this China manufactured drink. Verma added that a hoarder of this drink in Bhopal, Kamlesh Premchandani used to meet him with his needs but his stock got expired owing to the corona induced lockdown. We have seized 580 non-alcoholic drink and three samples have been sent for testing. Action will be taken if the samples fail the test.