Approximately 3,000 kg of adulterated tea powder, 1,500 kg of expired tea powder, artificial colouring agents, and 100 kg of jaggery were seized. (Source: Express Photo)

The Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST) has seized 3,000 kg of adulterated tea powder during raids across 15 locations in the city on Friday.

H-FAST in-charge DCP Gaikwad Vaibhav Raghunath said his team received inputs that large-scale adulteration of tea powder was going on in the city at several godowns. After gathering information about the location of the godowns, they were raided.

H-FAST officials said that they were astounded by what they found: industrial-scale adulteration of expired tea powder procured from tea estates and factories in Assam and other states.…