The Russia-Ukraine war has driven up the price of edible oil in India. Suspecting that the price rise may lead to sale of adulterated or substandard edible oil, Telangana Food Safety Authority teams conducted checks at oil manufacturing units, packaging units and retail stores in the State, and collected 98 samples.
C. Sivaleela, director of the Food Safety department, which comes under Institute of Preventive Medicine, said that their teams collected edible oil samples over three days and those have been sent to the State Food Laboratory in Nacharam.
The tests are conducted to determine the acid value of oil and nature of oil among other factors. The acid value increases with age of oil. This factor is being tested based on suspicion that old oil is being packed and sold as new product.
