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- First Time All States Tested Together Jaggery Of Jaipur Bhopal Best Bihar And Punjab’s Worst
New Delhi4 hours agoAuthor: Pawan Kumar
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For the first time, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) collected 3,060 samples from 249 districts across all the states of the country to test the jaggery. The results are shocking. Chemicals are mixed in the jaggery being sold in many states. There are many cities where all the samples have proved to be unsuccessful. Overall, 36% of jaggery in the country’s markets failed to meet the standards.
Jaggery sold loose is worse than packed
FSSAI also found in the investigation that jaggery sold loose is worse than packaged jaggery. Therefore, FSSAI has advised to eat packed jaggery. During the investigation, a good thing has also come to the fore that all the 7 solid metals (heavy metals) that were tested in jaggery were not found in jaggery. However, this report has not been made public yet.
Advice to educate employees
Based on the investigation, FSSAI has written letters to the FACI Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Consumer Affairs and the authorities regulating micro-small scale industries. It has been told that people engaged in the business of jaggery should be made aware. They should be given proper training.
Apart from this, the Indian Council for Agricultural Research and the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research Institute (IISRI) and the National Sugar Institute and State Research Institute have also been asked to spread awareness about pure jaggery.
jaggery report card
- Top 10 states where jaggery is best Tripura-100%, Uttarakhand 95%, Meghalaya 90.6%, Andaman-Nicobar 90%, Andhra Pradesh 87.5%, J&K 87.5%, Telangana 87%, Sikkim 85%, Assam 83.3% and Karnataka 80.6%.
- Worst of these states: Bihar-15.6%, Punjab-18.5%, Arunachal Pradesh 20%, Goa 25%, UP 38.5%, Manipur 40%, Odisha 44.4%, Gujarat 46.9% and Himachal Pradesh 50%.
- 100% pure in these cities: 100% pure jaggery was found in Bhopal, Ranchi, Delhi, Indore, Jaipur, Pune, Siliguri and Varanasi. Whereas, the purity was not found even 10% in the samples taken from Rajkot in Gujarat, Meerut in UP and Ludhiana in Punjab.
- Least breaking rules in the South: While preparing jaggery, food safety standards are being taken care of the most in South India. There, 78.3% of the jaggery has been found correct on the parameters. Whereas, 59.4% in the Northeast, 53.3% in the West and the lowest in North India 47.2%, the food safety standard is taken care of.