The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s food department has seized an estimated 10 tonnes of suspected counterfeit tomato sauce and ketchup from the Gota area, according to Gujarat Samachar. The raid comes after an earlier action in Danilimda, where officials reportedly found around 2,000 kilograms of raw material and prepared sauce at an unlicensed manufacturing facility.
The seized material in Gota was reportedly being sold under the name “R.K. Food Cordial”. The food department’s team conducted the raid after identifying a large-scale operation producing and distributing suspected fake tomato sauce and ketchup. The report described the stock as suspected and counterfeit, but did not provide details of laboratory testing or the final legal classification of the products.
The action was part of a wider campaign by the civic food department against adulterated food products during the festival period. The department’s enforcement activity places the municipal corporation in the role of checking food-processing premises, examining products and taking action against units operating without required safeguards.
The latest seizure follows a raid on a facility on the Danilimda–Pirana Road. According to the report, that premises was operating without a licence and in unhygienic conditions. Officials found approximately 2,000 kilograms of raw material and finished tomato sauce there and sealed the facility after the inspection.
The two actions indicate that the civic department is examining both manufacturing premises and the circulation of products sold as tomato sauce or ketchup. However, the supplied report does not specify whether the Gota operation had a valid licence, the exact ingredients used in the seized stock, the number of premises involved, or whether arrests or prosecutions have followed.
The scale of the Gota seizure also raises questions about how such products move through the city’s food-supply network before reaching shops, eateries and consumers. The available report does not identify distributors, retailers or brands that may have purchased the material, and it does not state whether samples have been sent for laboratory analysis.
For consumers, the immediate public-health concern is the sale of food products whose composition, manufacturing conditions and safety status have not been established. The report does not identify any confirmed illnesses linked to the seized material. It also does not provide details of the municipal corporation’s disposal process or the next legal steps.
The Ahmedabad civic food department’s earlier sealing of the Danilimda facility and the reported seizure in Gota form part of the department’s ongoing enforcement drive. Further action will depend on inspections, sampling, laboratory findings and proceedings under the applicable food-safety rules.
