Looking at the increase in sale of dry fruits ahead of Diwali, the health department officials inspected shops in the Walled City on Wednesday evening for the quality of dry fruits being sold. This inspection is to ensure that the shopkeepers are selling the right quality of dry fruits so that customers don’t get cheated on. It is a part of the campaign, which the health department has launched ahead of Diwali. Milk products, dry fruits, spices and other edible oils are on the list of those products that are being suspected as sub standard, adulterated or misbranded by the health officials. A separate team of the health directorate collected samples of ghee and blended edible oil from the shops in Pratap Nagar and Sanganer area of the city. A health department official involved in the inspection said one shop in the Sanganer area was selling blended peanut and soybean oil. But, even though it was blended oil, the packet had big pictures of peanuts, which was misguiding the customers. “From the picture on the packet, it seems that it is a peanut oil but if one reads it carefully there is a mention of blended oil in small letters. So the manufacturers were misguiding the customers,” the health department official said. He said that action will be taken against the trader, if found guilty. The officials also collected samples of ghee suspecting that it is adulterated. “We will send the samples for laboratory testing tomorrow morning to find if the ghee is adulterated with some other substances,” said the official. The health department officials continued inspecting shops in Deena Nathji Ki Gali in the Walled City area till late Wednesday evening. “We are inspecting the shops. There should be no fungus in the dry fruits and it should not be rotten,” said a health department official, who was involved in the inspection.