{
  "id": 16500745,
  "title": "Bhopal Food Safety Alert: FDA Raids Sweet Shops, Collects Mawa And Laddoo Samples; Warns Against Aluminium Foil On Sweets",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/bhopal-food-safety-alert-fda-raids-sweet-shops-collects-mawa-and",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-25T16:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/bhopal-food-safety-alert-fda-raids-sweet-shops-collects-mawa-and-laddoo-samples-warns-against-aluminium-foil-on-sweets"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) in Bhopal conducted raids on multiple sweet shops on Sunday, collecting samples of paneer, mawa, milk, and laddoos for testing. This action coincided with Sharad Purnima, a festival which traditionally sees a surge in sweet and mawa consumption. Inspections took place at Jai Shri Krishna Sweets, Amarnath area of Kolar locality, Gurjar Dairy & Sweets, Chhola Road, and Gupta Sweets & Namkeen in the same area.\n\nThe FDA warned consumers against using silver and aluminium foil on sweets. They emphasized that attractive shine or visual appeal should not be the sole deciding factor for purchasing sweets. Only silver foil certified for human consumption may be used on food products, while aluminium or other non-approved metals should not be present on food items. To identify these metals, FDA suggested that silver foil, when rubbed between fingers, may break down or appear to vanish, while aluminium foil tends to crumple into small metallic knots or thread-like structures upon hand rubbing.",
  "summary": "Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The team of the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted raids against many sweet shops on Sunday. Samples of paneer, mawa, milk and 'laddoos' were collected and consumers have been urged to exercise caution regarding silver and aluminium foils. The raids coincided with 'Sharad Purnima', the festival during which demand for sweets and 'mawa' increases…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}