High level of synthetic sweetener found in Punjab bakery's cakes after girl's death

High levels of a synthetic sweetener were found in some cake samples from a bakery in Punjab's Patiala, a health official said on Monday..

This is the same bakery which supplied the birthday cake for a 10-year-old girl who died after eating it...

District Health Officer, Dr Vijay Jindal said four samples of cake were taken from the bakery and two of them were found to contain high levels of saccharin, an artificial sweetener..

The report on the cake samples comes almost a month after a 10-year-old girl in Patiala died due to suspected food poisoning after she ate her birthday cake..

Dr Vijay Jindal clarified that the forensic report on the cake which was eaten by Manvi and her sister is yet to come but other samples from the bakery which made the cake showed high levels of synthetic sweeteners...

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