In a drive against supply of synthetic mawa for making sweets on the occasion of Holi, a team of health department officials raided a plant in a village here where they seized 300 kg of the substance.
The raid took place in Bhensakhedi village under Chapar police station limits in the district on Friday.
Mawa or khoya is dried evaporated milk solids and forms the base of many sweets. Synthetic mawa is an adulterant.
According to chief food inspector Vivek Kumar, the samples were taken from five people in the plant who were preparing synthetic mawa for supplying on Holi.
Later, most of the recovered synthetic mawa was dumped in mud and some samples were sent for laboratory test, he said.