Click to play videoChennai: What's Deepawali without mouth-watering sweets? And Ragini Rao, a homemaker in Chennai knows that well. So despite being pressed for time during her Deepawali preparations, she insists on making the sweets at home. Whether it is for her own family or to gift relatives and friends.
“The bigger sweet stores do sell quality products. But I don't want to take a chance. They might add fake colour or some other synthetic material that could pose as a health hazard,” Ragini said.
But it's not just spurious colour that poses a threat. Other ingredients like gram, sugar and milk, too, could be adulterated and sometimes, poisonous.
Most of the big sweet store chains in Chennai anticipate the Deepawali rush and stock the ingredients in advance. They say that last-minute purchases could put stores under pressure to meet the demand and this could increase chances of adulteration.
But for those who have been long in the business like the famed Adyar Anand Bhavan, quality always comes first.
“We give contracts to the raw material suppliers only after checking their goods thoroughly. They won't give us spurious goods because they need our business. And we also check the goods each time a new load arrives, so they can't cheat us,” Managing Partner, Adyar Ananda Bhavan, KT Srinivasa Raja said.
(With inputs from Prathibha)
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