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Telangana police to form 100-member food adulteration enforcement wing
Telangana Police will form a 100-member enforcement wing against food adulteration, DGP C V Anand said, according to Siasat.com. The unit will work with a revamped drug control and food inspection system,…
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Telangana Police will form a 100-member enforcement wing against food adulteration, DGP C V Anand said, according to Siasat.com. The unit will work with a revamped drug control and food inspection system, while “T Safe” is expected to expand inspections and laboratory testing. Anand linked the initiative to rising cancer cases in the state and said the chief minister wanted stronger action.
He said Telangana residents lost about Rs 1,750 crore to online fraud last year, compared with roughly Rs 250 crore to other theft and robbery. The department also plans a traffic safety bureau, T-MARS, as Hyderabad’s four commissionerates handle nearly 9.5 million vehicles and about 1,500 new registrations daily.
The Indian Opinion
The claim that a new squad alone will end food adulteration is too easy, just as blaming every rise in cancer on contaminated food would be careless without published evidence. AI monitoring and wider inspections matter only if laboratories report results quickly and courts secure convictions. The useful test is simple: how many samples are tested, how many offenders are prosecuted, and how fast are results released?
Source: siasat.com
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