Food adulteration: Ice-cream units in Hyderabad raided

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Task Force police on Wednesday raided several local ice-cream manufacturing companies in the city.

According to the police, the raids came after a tip-off on manufacturing companies using hazardous chemical substances for the preparation of ice-creams in different flavours.

“The special teams raided 15 places falling under Central, East, North, West and North Zones,” said B Limba Reddy, Deputy Commissioner of Police,



Task Force. Cases were booked against some of these companies, while further inspections were still on. 

The Task Force had on Tuesday launched a crackdown on various forms of adulteration, with 15 dairy farms raided and 15 persons arrested on charges of using banned drug oxytocin in order to boost milk production in buffaloes. Six others were also arrested for adulteration of substances like ginger-garlic, honey-based sweets, ‘saunf’, and even packaged drinking water.