No quality standards in Amul, Mother dairies

New Delhi, May 05: Each state in the country has cooperative dairy products and private diaries, which are selling Milk and dairy products.'

Twenty-one milk samples including that of Amul and Mother Dairy were found to be of "sub-standard" quality during tests conducted by the Delhi government, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said on Friday.

Minister Satyendra Jain has expressed surprise that even big companies like Gujarat diary Amul, Noida base mother dairy and other dairy companies have not been able to meet quality standards.

Saying that these samples were not unsafe, Jain said they did not have the prescribed levels of components like fat among others.

The tests were done on 165 samples collected from across the city between April 13 and April 28. Out of these, 21 samples were found to be sub-standard, the minister said.

He also said that all the cases will be forwarded to the court, adding that a penalty ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 5 lakh would be imposed.