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market in guwahati, nabbed may , guwahati: the sleuths of the food safety wing seized quintals of mango and destroyed them at fancy bazar fruit market in guwahati on tuesday, besides nabbing two west bengal-based traders. three other traders, however, fled the scene. it looks like an ordinary incident, but
the mangoes seized were artificially ripened ones. ripening agents, when pricked to fruits, speed up the process of their ripening. these agents are particularly unsaturated hydrocarbons like acetylene, ethylene, etc. however, a chemical known as calcium carbide (cac ) is the most commonly used one for...
https://www.fssai.gov.in/upload/media/FSSAI_News_Mango_Sentinel_23_05_2019.pdf