Milk testing drive held at Nashik

Nashik, Oct 29 (PTI) The Food and Drugs Administration of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) undertook a drive to test the adulteration level in the milk available in Dhule district, civic officials said today.The drive was held yesterday and was led by Food Inspector R D Suryavanshi who collected milk samples from 53 vendors and found out that 10 of them were adulterated, they said.Action has been taken by the NMC officials after huge stock of adulterated 'khava' (conglobated boiled milk) used to prepare sweets was being seized by the FDA yesterday, they said.The 'khava' was bought from Gujarat and was being sent to Amravati and Latur, they said.The civic officials also collected samples of sweets from city's reputed sweet marts and have sent it for examination in Pune, Suryavanshi said adding "we have asked the shop owners not to store 'khava', especially made from cow's milk till we get reports from Pune." PTI COR RRN