India, Nov. 7 -- The Delhi government's Food Safety Department has collected 40 food samples and issued improvement notices to eight establishments during inspections of sweet shops, dairies and food manufacturing units across the city ahead of Diwali.

The inspections were conducted in North-East, East, Shahdara, South and South-East Delhi to check the quality of food products and compliance with hygiene standards. Nearly 100 kg of food material unfit for human consumption was also destroyed at a dairy in Mandoli Extension.

During inspections in North-East, East and Shahdara, officials collected 22 samples of khoya, paneer, ghee, kalakand, laddus, gulab jamuns and dry fruit gift packs. At the Mandoli Extension dairy, teams found foul-sm...