Ludhiana, July 17 -- The food safety team of the local health department conducted a detailed inspection of various bakery units across the city that manufacture fruit cakes, buns, rusks (fans), and cream rolls. The drive was carried out on Wednesday and Thursday during which a few units were found operating under unhygienic conditions, officials said.

According to officials, they inspected five bakery units. The owners of three were issued on-the-spot challans. The erring units are situated at Jalandhar bypass, Basti Jodhewal and Tibba road, officials said. Samples of various food items and raw materials were collected for laboratory testing. The collected items included two types of fruit cakes, cream, salt, used cooking oil, palmolein...