The primary target of the enforcement drive was Ananya Trading Company, where investigators uncovered an industrial repackaging operation holding 16,394 litres of spurious fat products. Operatives at the facility were systematically collecting expired, rancid, and market-returned ghee batches, blending them with lower-cost vegetable lipids, and repackaging the adulterated mixture into brand-new tins and pouches. Counterfeit inventory was seized under multiple commercial brand names, including Trisalwa, Bansuri, Shrinand, and Mayra. Officers discovered commercial sealing machinery, rolls of brand stickers, unlabelled tin containers, and pre-printed retail packaging designed to pass degraded fats off as fresh premium clarified butterfat.

From an analytical chemistry and dairy quality perspective, adulteration of indigenous ghee (clarified butterfat) with hydrogenated vegetable fats (vanaspati) and refined bleached deodorized (RBD) palm oil represents a persistent challenge for Indian food safety regulators. Authentic bovine ghee consists primarily of short- and medium-chain fatty acids, giving it a characteristic crystallization pattern, butyric acid aroma, and melting point between 28°C and 36°C. Blending foreign vegetable oils artificially alters the Reichert-Meissl (RM) value, Polenske value, and fatty acid profile. Preliminary findings indicate that palm oil and vanaspati consignments sourced from Gujarat were heated and emulsified with returned dairy stocks to cut processing costs and mimic authentic milk fat texture, with representative samples dispatched to certified state public health laboratories for gas chromatography and purity profiling.

The coordinated crackdown simultaneously extended to New Vijay Trading Company along the Suratgarh Bypass, where inspection teams seized an additional 5,744 litres of counterfeit ghee. Both commercial warehouses were sealed under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA), 2006, to preserve chain-of-custody evidence and prevent tainted lots from being distributed to confectionery makers, traditional sweet shops (halwais), and neighborhood grocery retailers. Investigators are examining transport waybills, GST invoices, and inter-state logistics manifests to map suppliers who routed raw vegetable oil feedstocks into Sri Ganganagar.