With Onam – Kerala's harvest festival – round the corner, Biju Prabhakar, the southern state's food safety commissioner issued a notice to the food safety officers (FSOs) of all its districts, instructing them to form squads and conduct raids on the premises of food business operators (FBOs) to check the quality of the wheat, rice, sugar, jaggery, spices, cardamom, ghee, fruit and vegetables used by them to prepare the festive delicacies.
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