Ghaziabad traders protest 'highhandedness' of FDA officials

Scores of traders belonging to the Industries and Traders Welfare Association (ITWA) today staged a sit-in at the district collectorate in protest against their alleged exploitation and highhandedness of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) officials.
A memorandum, address to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, was submitted in the office of the District Magistrate.
Addressing the gathering, ITWA national president Mahesh Kumar Ahuja alleged that the Ghaziabad FDA was exploiting and creating problems for traders and industrialists on the pretext of taking samples of their products.
Ahuja said the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 has lost its relevance and has become a tool of exploitation of traders. When the Act was promulgated all crops were raised with the help of natural manure but nowadays chemicals and fertilisers are used for all crops and farm produces, he said.