Panaji: The food and drugs administration (FDA) has imposed penalties on multiple food business operators for manufacturing and selling substandard food. It also penalised unlicensed outlets and businesses operating under unhygienic conditions.M/s Shree Chemfood Pvt. Ltd., Gujarat, was penalised Rs 2 lakh for allegedly selling misbranded and substandard iodised salt.Dharwad Mishra Pedha and Food Processing Industry (G. A. Mishra Farm House) at Dharwad, Karnataka, was penalised Rs 50,000 for allegedly selling loose motichoor ladoo.FDA also fined Nitin Wadhwa, partner of M/s Dias Club, Anjuna, Rs 1 lakh for allegedly selling food articles without a valid FSSAI state licence. M/s Jagannath Salt Pvt. Ltd., Gujarat, was fined Rs 2 lakh for allegedly selling misbranded and substandard salt.FDA also imposed a Rs 10,000 penalty on Pooja Prajapati of M/s Ganesh Goa Sweet Corner, Mesta Bhat, Merces, for selling substandard Mysore Pak.
