Ludhiana, July 29 -- The food safety team of the health department on Wednesday seized around 75 kg of imported empty nutritional supplement wrappers, 100 kg of health supplements and 36 boxes of artificial flavouring agents during a surprise inspection at a supplement store on Tibba Road, suspecting possible violations related to repackaging and misbranding.

During the raid, officials recovered a large quantity of imported empty wrappers of various nutritional supplements, which they said could potentially be misused for repackaging, misbranding and illegal marketing of food supplements.

The seized stock has been taken into custody for further investigation under the provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.

To verify the...