India, Oct. 27 -- Gurugram's food safety department and chief minister's flying squads, in a joint operation on Monday, destroyed around 125kg of paneer found unsafe for consumption and collected eight samples of paneer, khoa and sweets during inspections at markets and dairy outlets in Gurugram on Monday, officials said.

The action was carried out in Sadar Bazaar Mandi, Pataudi Chowk and the Bhagwan Parshuram Vatika areas amid concerns over the sale of substandard and potentially adulterated food products.

During the inspections, officials found paneer at two shops to be foul-smelling and unfit for consumption. The paneer was seized and destroyed on the spot to prevent it from being sold, according to the information provided by the de...