Monday, September 21, 2009

Contaminated foods flooding Assam markets as government watches

D
espite more and more teeth against the dishonest businessmen, adulterated commodities are still flooding in the market. A circle of businessmen aided and abetted by a section of food and civil supply department and police officers are repackaging some commodities even after the expiry of the date. But the authorities are still in deep sleep. Death due to consumption of adulterated food continues to hit media headline these days. What is the source of these foods in question? How these are adulterated? NETV has some startling revelations as it tried to crack the mystery. This is the goodwon owned by one Mittal at Betkuchi area in Guwahati. A huge consignment of ghee, sugar is rushed to the various places from this godown. A truck bearing No WB76653 was seen remaining stranded in front of the godown on Saturday evening. What was loaded in the truck? The truck was loaded with ghee packets manufactured by Ruchi Co. whose period had already expired. The truck had approximately 1000 bags of ghee of manufactured by Hindustan Lever branded as Ruchi whose date has already expired. The truck was to leave for Haldia from Guwahati. According to the truck owner, these ghee packets would be carried by the truck. But the question is why are these being rushed to Haldia spending lakhs of rupees? Why these ghee packets were not disposed off in Guwahati? These are what that is going on without the notice of the heavily manned food and civil supply department. Disclosures made by the security guards have made the things more mysterious. The involvement of police and supply department officers in this deal of adulterated ghee is no longer a secret. The entire circle has a nefarious plan to repackage these ghee packets at an undisclosed location in the outskirt of Guwahati before being released to the market. It’s a small and simple example of how adulterated commodities are flooding in the market. But will the authorities wake up from the deep sleep?

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