Hyderabad, June 4 -- A chocolate manufacturing unit called Vignette Food Specialities Pvt Ltd in Seetarambagh, Old Mallepally, was raided by the Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST) on Thursday, June 4, and over 200 kg of unsafe chocolates were seized.

Konda Karthik was arrested for manufacturing, repacking, and marketing chocolate products in violation of food safety regulations.

Violations included usage of colouring agents and powders for preparing the chocolates and a lack of manufacturing dates, batch numbers, expiry dates, and best-before dates on labels.

Flavours found at the manufacturing unit

Officials also found that flavours and essences had been kept well beyond their expiry dates and were being used in t...