New Delhi, March 6 -- In a major crackdown on adulterated food items, the Food Safety Department on Friday seized around 1,401 kilograms of suspected adulterated paneer in Surat district of Gujarat.

The food manufacturing facility was operating without an FSSAI licence. Samples of paneer have been sent for testing to ensure consumer safety, the FSSAI said in a social media post on X.

Of late, cases of food adulteration are becoming widespread and, in some cases, increasingly sophisticated, posing a danger to public health.

Last month, the Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) confiscated 416,494 litres of cooking oil of questionable or inferior grade, valued to be worth nearly Rs.6.43 crore, reported news agency PTI....