Patna: The health department on Monday destroyed 260 kg of expired and improperly labelled food ingredients worth Rs 80,720 and seized 160 kg of butter valued at Rs 43,000 during inspections of ice cream and dairy outlets in Patna. The department also stopped the sale of ice cream products being sold without batch numbers and manufacturing dates.According to health department press release issued on Monday, the inspections covered Golden Dairy Products, Snow Ball Ice Cream, Mother Dairy stockist Maa Bhadrakali Traders, Saloni Enterprises and Popular Snowman Cold Storage. Food samples were collected from several units for laboratory testing.At Golden Dairy Products in the Patliputra Industrial Area, officials destroyed 442 ice creams, including 244 Choco Bars and 198 Amar Bars, after finding them unfit for consumption. Hygiene and storage-related lapses were also detected, the release said.At Snow Ball Ice Cream’s manufacturing unit in Maner, officials destroyed 260 kg of ingredients, including expired mango pulp, dried blackcurrants, chocolate substitute and unlabelled skimmed milk powder.The sale of ice cream manufactured by Saloni Enterprises in Khemnichak was halted after products were found without batch numbers and manufacturing dates. At Popular Snowman Cold Storage in Kumhrar, 160 kg of butter was seized for lacking batch numbers.Officials issued improvement notices under Section 32 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, directing the establishments to rectify deficiencies within 14 days. Failure to comply may result in suspension or cancellation of licences.
