Goa Fish Market

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in Goa to officially kick start the Trinamool Congress' campaign in the poll-bound state, arrived at a local fish market on Friday to roars of "khela hobe" - the party's poll cry for the Bengal elections.

Amid the ongoing tussle between the Congress and the ruling BJP-led coalition government in Goa, the formalin-in-fish controversy raised its head again on Saturday, after Congress leaders, armed with testing kits, visited a popular fish market in South Goa and claimed that the fish sold there was still being contaminated with formalin.

The Goa government has withdrawn the stringent checking of fish brought from outside at the state's border and instead, will conduct random inspection of the stock in local markets, a minister said today

Multiple raids on wholesale fish markets in Goa stoked controversy after a spot inspection by Food Drug Administration staff revealed a carcinogenic preservative formaldehyde's presence in fish, but after a minister's tweet giving a clean chit to the wholesalers, on Thursday claimed that the chemical's levels were within permissible limits.

In a bid to ensure better availability of good quality fish in the local markets, the Goa government is mulling to impose tax on the trucks carrying fish for sale outside the state.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in Goa to officially kick start the Trinamool Congress' campaign in the poll-bound state, arrived at a local fish market on Friday to roars of "khela hobe" - the party's poll cry for the Bengal elections.

Amid the ongoing tussle between the Congress and the ruling BJP-led coalition government in Goa, the formalin-in-fish controversy raised its head again on Saturday, after Congress leaders, armed with testing kits, visited a popular fish market in South Goa and claimed that the fish sold there was still being contaminated with formalin.

The Goa government has withdrawn the stringent checking of fish brought from outside at the state's border and instead, will conduct random inspection of the stock in local markets, a minister said today

Multiple raids on wholesale fish markets in Goa stoked controversy after a spot inspection by Food Drug Administration staff revealed a carcinogenic preservative formaldehyde's presence in fish, but after a minister's tweet giving a clean chit to the wholesalers, on Thursday claimed that the chemical's levels were within permissible limits.

In a bid to ensure better availability of good quality fish in the local markets, the Goa government is mulling to impose tax on the trucks carrying fish for sale outside the state.