Food authority to launch PAN India surveillance of Khoa

New Delhi, Oct 26 : The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is set to launch a nationwide surveillance across the country to check the quality of Khoa or mawa– a milk-made object widely used in making most Indian sweets.
The move is being taken following reports of adulterated Khoa being manufactured and marketed across the country.
Due to the versatile nature of Khoa, it is the main ingredient in an array of Indian sweets such as barfis, pedas, milk cake, kalakand and halwas.
The Federation of Sweets and Namkeen manufacturers recently met the FSSAI CEO and inter alia raised the issue of adulterated Khoa being supplied to them.
As a result, a pilot survey was conducted by Department of Food Safety, Delhi under the guidance of FSSAI by placing Food Safety on Wheels (FSWs) at Mori Gate Khoa Mandi in Delhi between August 31 to September 4 this year.
During this survey, Khoa samples were tested by the FSW staff for 3 parameters– acidity, maximum added starch and added sugar in Khoa.