Cuttack: Bentkar police and Food Squad of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) today seized huge quantities of adulterated spices from a spices manufacturing unit in Bayalis Mouza area.
An employee of the spices manufacturing unit has been detained by the police in this connection.
According to reports, acting on a tip-off a joint team of the CMC and Bentkar police raided a spices manufacturing in Bayalis Mouza leading to the seizure of huge quantities of raw material and machinery used in the manufacturing of adulterated spices like turmeric and chili powder.
Samples of the seized goods will be sent to a food testing laboratory. Police are interrogating the detained employee of the unit.