FDA conducts UT-wide drive on milk quality, collects 170 samples for testing

Srinagar, July 25 -- The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), Jammu and Kashmir, has conducted a Union Territory-wide special enforcement drive on milk and milk products, carrying out 213 inspections and collecting 170 milk samples for quality and safety testing.

According to the FDA, Food Safety teams inspected retail milk vendors across various districts and collected 170 enforcement samples of loose milk for testing at NABL-accredited Food Testing Laboratories to assess prescribed quality and safety parameters.

The samples were collected from Jammu, Samba, Poonch, Rajouri, Reasi, Udhampur, Kathua, Srinagar, Anantnag, Bandipora, Budgam, Ganderbal, Kupwara, Shopian, Kulgam and Pulwama districts. Besides milk, 10 samples of other high-ris...