In view of the scorching heat in the city of Surat, the urban people are resorting to cold drinks, ice balls and ice creams. Crowds of people are seen every night outside the icedish and ice cream parlours. While people have started storing ice cream in their home fridges, shocking reports of adulteration in ice cream and icedish parlors and cake stores have come to the fore in Surat.
Keeping in view the summer season, food safety officials of the food department had taken samples of cake-pastry, black pepper-masala, ice cream and ice ball from Surat city area last month. Out of these 8 samples have been found failed. Therefore, on the basis of the report of the lab test, the Municipal Corporation will file a complaint against the institutions.
Which includes Vanilla Ice Cream from Pandesara’s Shree Savariya Ice Cream, Rajbhog Ice Cream from Pandesara’s Bholenath Ice Cream, Ram and Shyam Ice Dish and Gola from Katargam, Rajkotwala Cashew Anjeer Ice Cream, Bhatar’s Parth Ice Gola Orange Syrup, Adajan’s Jai Bhavani Dry Fruit Dish Gola Cream. , Rander’s Lakshmi Masala Grih Bhandar Chilli Powder, Adajan’s Danish Cake and Vanilla Slice from Pastry Shop and Ghoddaud Road’s GB Foods and Confectionery Pvt Ltd’s Royal Chocolate Cake samples have failed.
According to sources in Surat Municipal Corporation, the samples taken by the Municipal Corporation last month have revealed that the colors used are non-edible and substances like palm oil are used in ice cream. After the report of the labtest, the Food Department of the Municipal Corporation will now take legal action by registering a complaint against the institutions from where the samples were taken.
