A market monitoring team of DoCSM on Tuesday found shops in Maitidevi and Old Baneshwar selling date expired and unlabelled products. Some shops that the team monitored on the day did not have price list of products. Some were found operating without registering their business with the authority concerned.[break]
“Despite regular monitoring, we find similar anomalies almost everywhere. This cannot be controlled unless strict action is taken against wrongdoers and customers themselves become aware,” said Mohan Chandra Joshi, market investigation officer, at DoCSM.
The team on the day destroyed seven two-liter bottles of Pepsi and Mountain Dew found at Bhadrakali Kirana Store, Old Baneshwar. It also destroyed 3 bottles of Mirinda found at Jogmaya Khadya Store. Similarly, Maitidevi Traders and Dainik Kirana Pasal were found selling unlabelled and overwritten products, while Sushma Paan Pasal was operating without registration.
The team has asked owners of the shop furnish clarifications at the department within 3 to 7 days.
Similarly, DoCSM stopped production and sales of Datattraya Dalmoth Udhyog after its monitoring team found its production unit too unhygienic. Also, promoters of Datattraya Dalmoth Udhyog failed to produce sales bill as demanded by the monitoring team.
The monitoring team has also collected sample of Aqua Raj drinking water produced by Jaya Chumma Ganesh Suddha Khanepani for lab tests. “The sample has been sent to Department of Food Technology and Quality Control for necessary tests,” said Joshi.
Officials say they are failing to control anomalies in the market in the absence of strong action against the wrongdoers.
DoCSM had conducted market monitoring 860 times in the capital in 2011/12. Though it had found 142 industries guilty, it had filed cases against only five of them.
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