bhopal continuing its crackdown against ad ulteration a team of food and drug administration fda on monday inspected the fruits and edibles being sold at a city mall and collected sampleswhile inspecting a store at the mall the team found that apples with wax coating are being sold without any disclaimer or label indicating the samesenior food safety officer from bhopal dk verma said that the food safety act makes it mandatory for a seller to declare to the customers that the fruits being sold are waxcoated only three types of wax are permitted on fruits bees wax carnauba wax and shellac wax use of paraffin wax is banned he said advt the store selling the waxcoated apples admitted to the mistake and immediately put up a display board after the inspection samples were collected to check the purity of ghee and besan ladoos being sold at the store said an official fda has also started inspecting shops selling nonvegetarian food products verma said sale of a few species of fish is banned during monsoon information on sshops selling those species would be sent to the fisheries department he said a second fda team meanwhile was collecting samples of paneer and ghee from kolarofficials said rajeev gupta owner of a chilling plant at lahar in bhind district who was absconding ever since his plant was raided by the special task force stf on july 19 surrendered before a civil court on monday the court ordered his arrest and handed him over to stf on remand till september 12 tnn published on sep 10 2019 at 0123 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app fda food safety malls nonveg items bhopal homenewsbhopal fda crackdown reaches mall lens on nonveg items