Spurious soft drink unit busted in Odisha’s Mancheswar
BHUBANESWAR: A spurious soft drink manufacturing unit was busted in Mancheswar Industrial Estate and one person arrested here on Tuesday.
On a tip-off, Special Squad officers and Mancheswar police raided the unit and seized over 1,000 litres of spurious cold drinks and soda bottles.
The accused Sripati Ranjan Behera of Sameigadia was operating the unit from December last year without obtaining the trade licence or Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s certificate. He was manufacturing cold drinks using labels of branded firms and a lso in the name of unregistered companies.
Police said he was supplying soft drink bottles having labels of Spide Oon, Spyce Oon, Orange Oon, DiFens Soda and Pulp Litchi.
“The packaging of Spide Oon is similar to Sprite while Spyce Oon and DiFens Soda bottles resembled the bottles of Spice Up and Kinley Soda respectively”, said a police officer. He was selling a 600 ml cold drink bottle for Rs 35, 200 ml cold drink bottle for Rs 10 and 300 ml soda for Rs 10.
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