Balrampur 05 July 2024: As per the instructions of Collector Shri Remigius Ekka, the pre-festival proceedings are being carried out by the Controller of Food and Drug Administration. In this episode, the joint team inspected food items in various hotels of Ramanujganj. During the investigation, the quality of the jalebi sweets served to the customers at the Samridhi Hotel located at the Ramanujganj New Bus Stand was checked and it was found that the colour used to make the jalebi had expired in March 2024. Seeing the above negligence by the team on the spot, a case was immediately registered against the hotel operator and the sample of jalebi was sealed and seized under the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 and Regulations 2011. Along with this, the expired colour which was found was confiscated and the jalebi was cooked with high density oil in Samridhi Hotel, a sample of that oil was also taken. Continuing the proceedings, in the inspection of milk and milk products, milk and cheese samples were taken from Samanvay Hotel, Jaiguru Dairy of the milkmen who bring milk from Jharkhand, followed by samosa samples from Gokul Sweets Ramanujganj and mango juice samples from Rinku Sonkar. During the entire proceedings, the team included food safety officers Nitesh Mishra, Ravi Gupta, Santosh etc. People were made aware of the harmful effects on health due to high density of oil. Along with this, common citizens were made aware to complain on toll free number 93405-97097 in case of any complaint related to the quality of food items.