Adulterated milk has recently been the subject of national conversation. There have been reports of even major milk companies selling adulterated milk on the market. It is against a background of growing public suspicion of adulteration that milk major Amul has decided to have mobile vans for on the spot checks of milk samples.
According to Ramsingh Parmar, Chairman of Amul, which actually is one of the milk unions of GCMMF, this would greatly strengthen adulteration prevention efforts in that investigation would become a lot easier and an effective quick check on adulteration an easy practical option.
Amul has over thousand village cooperative societies under its control that are scattered over various districts of Gujarat. With the help of mobile vans, Amul can easily keep its eye on adulteration.
There are dozens of sources of milk located in faraway districts of the state but the use of mobile checking vans would deter the erring ones among them from indulging in any suspicious activities.
Sources claim the mobile van has the latest technology on it and would come very handy whenever an investigation needs to be conducted. This marks Amul out as a company that cares about its customers, sources add.