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Two samples of milk produced by Mother Dairy have been found to be substandard, and one of them contained detergent, a food watchdog official said on Tuesday. A Mother Dairy official denied the charges, saying the company conducts “stringent quality tests”, and the substandard milk was wrongly attributed to it.
Ram Naresh Yadav, chief of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) department in Agra, said two samples were taken from Mother Dairy’s collection centres in Bah tehsil, 70 km from Agra city, in November 2014.
“The samples were sent to the Lucknow laboratory which declared both of them substandard. The company challenged the results and demanded the samples be sent to the Kolkata lab, which too found them defective. In fact, the Kolkata lab found one sample contained detergent,” Yadav said.
However, a Mother Dairy official denied that the milk supplied in pouches was substandard. “It is very unfortunate that the samples collected at the village level are being wrongly attributed to Mother Dairy,” Sandeep Ghosh, business head for milk at Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd., told IANS. “We would like to clarify that at Mother Dairy, milk undergoes four levels of thorough testing at input, processing, dispatches and even at market level. Every tanker of milk reaching our plants passes a series of 23 stringent quality tests to check any deviation from defined parameters. -
Detergent found in Mother Dairy milk samples, company denies charge | The Indian Express
Ram Naresh Yadav, chief of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) department in Agra, said two samples were taken from Mother Dairy’s collection centres in Bah tehsil, 70 km from Agra city, in November 2014.
“The samples were sent to the Lucknow laboratory which declared both of them substandard. The company challenged the results and demanded the samples be sent to the Kolkata lab, which too found them defective. In fact, the Kolkata lab found one sample contained detergent,” Yadav said.
However, a Mother Dairy official denied that the milk supplied in pouches was substandard. “It is very unfortunate that the samples collected at the village level are being wrongly attributed to Mother Dairy,” Sandeep Ghosh, business head for milk at Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd., told IANS. “We would like to clarify that at Mother Dairy, milk undergoes four levels of thorough testing at input, processing, dispatches and even at market level. Every tanker of milk reaching our plants passes a series of 23 stringent quality tests to check any deviation from defined parameters. -
Detergent found in Mother Dairy milk samples, company denies charge | The Indian Express
