In Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, the Department of Food Safety and Drugs has seized cold drinks on the expiry date. Not only this, the team has also found evidence of changing the expiry date through laser. Due to the reduced sales of cold drinks in the cold, the shopkeepers get sufficient quantity of cold drinks. After 6 months, the cold drink expires. He has to be destroyed in the event of expiry, but some traders are dealing with expiration cold drinks instead of destroying it.

In Gorakhpur, some traders are buying cold drinks of expiry date at half a price and selling the date from the laser and selling it in the market. In the action lasted for two days in the area, the team of Food Safety and Drug Department has seized more than 3000 cold drink boxes. Large -scale purchases about cold drinks were going on. When the team of Food Safety and Drug Department came to know about this matter, they started raids.

Date was being changed with the help of laser

The team had received information that some traders are replacing the expired cold drink date with the help of laser and selling it in the market. Shopkeepers are buying it at half rate. The accused were transporting the old bottle with fresh goods in the cardboard to spend the very cleverly expired cold drink. Nobody usually knows it by changing the date with the help of laser. Due to the high demand of cold drinks in summer, most people usually do not check their expiry date.

Expiry cold drink was being sold

When the team of Food Safety and Drugs Department raided Sandeep Traders at Maheva Mandi in Gorakhpur a few days ago, the matter came to light and after that the team started raids. The team received 115 bottles of cold drinks from Sandeep Traders. The 1 liter cold drink was changed from laser on these bottles. The date of expiry of cold drinks was 25 February 2025, which was changed to 28 August 2025 with the help of laser.

Seas cold drink boxes

With the help of laser, two were being sold in the market very comfortably. The team was seen connecting the cold drink wires of expiry date in many other places from here. After this, the Food Safety and Drug Department team raided Laxmi Traders in Dominarh, Gorakhpur, from where a large -scale expired cold drink was found. When the businessman was questioned by the department here, he could not give any accurate answer. The same team raided a firm of Khorabar, and there was a large amount of cold drinks. The team that has seized this.

'Campaign will continue even further'

In the interrogation of the department, this case has also come to light that the batch number is written on the packaging done by the company and the batch number only shows which date the cold drink has been prepared. At the same time, in this case, Assistant Commissioner Food said that companies have written letters to write a batch number on bottles and packets. Assistant Commission Dr. Sudhir Kumar Singh said that this campaign will continue even further.