State FDCA seized 351 tonnes of suspicious food items in 2024-25
Gandhinagar: The state govt on Friday said that the state Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) conducted over 190 raids during the year and seized 351 tonnes of suspicious food items valued at Rs 10.5 crore.
The statement released on the eve of World Food Safety Day (June 7) said that the seized items mainly included ghee, sweets, mawa, grains, and other food products. The FDCA also destroyed 15.3 tonnes of spoiled food items worth over Rs 26 lakh.
An official statement mentioned that during 2024-25, 1.28 lakh food safety licences and registrations were issued after inspections, with 23,570 inspections and 12,334 high-risk inspections conducted.
During the year, the administration's laboratories tested 60,448 food samples, with 1.45% failing and 0.17% declared unsafe. For these tests, 16,163 enforcement and 44,285 surveillance samples were collected.
The state govt said that to tackle those compromising public health, 980 adjudication cases were filed under the Food Safety and Standards Act during the year. Of these, 864 cases were successfully resolved, imposing a total fine of Rs 6.21 crore on the offenders.
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Additionally, 87 court cases related to unsafe food items were filed, resulting in fines of Rs 54.42 lakh.
The statement added that to facilitate on-site primary testing of food items, 32 'Food Safety on Wheels' vans are operational across the state. Over 1.24 lakh samples were tested on-site during the year.
The state govt has approved the setting up of four new laboratories in Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Junagadh, and Valsad to meet the future need for more sample testing. The statement said that when these laboratories become operational, the FDCA will be able to test food samples with double the capacity and in less time.
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