NEW DELHI: The Delhi excise department has asked all wholesalers to start testing liquor received from manufacturers and upload reports on a portal along with undertaking that there is no spurious alcohol.
Under the new excise policy of Delhi government, each wholesale licensee is required to set up an approved laboratory at its warehouses to check the presence of spurious liquor in each batch of liquor received from the manufacturers.
An order issued by the excise department earlier this month directed L-1 (wholesatesting and upload test report for each batch received from manufacturer/distillery along with an undertaking that the liquor is not spurious and is as per approved label specifications and as per prescribed BIS specification in testing module on ESCIMS.
“It is work under progress so far,” said a senior excise department officer. The above news was originally posted on timesofindia.indiatimes.com
