The Maharashtra Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) suspended the licence of M/s Parle Agro after discovering expired shares of Frooti, Appy and Apple Fizz at its Chembur godown. Shares price ₹99,970 have been seized from the Velocity Categorical Warehouse close to Chembur Naka.
The motion comes as part of the company’s wider statewide marketing campaign in opposition to eating places, accommodations, dhabas, bakeries, on-line meals platforms and different meals companies beneath its commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. Mundhe took over because the Maharashtra FDA chief in Could, 2025.
The FDA, as of August 13, had inspected 109 accommodations, eating places and dhabas, issuing 49 enchancment notices and suspended 4 food-business licences. It had, a couple of days in the past, additionally discovered soiled cooking utensils, important fly infestation, wastewater and meals residue within the kitchen at Bollywood Cafe in Movie Metropolis, Goregaon East.
FDA crackdown on quick-commerce retailers: Cockroaches, rats and expired hen discovered
The FDA, throughout its particular inspection drive concentrating on quick-commerce meals supply retailers throughout Mumbai, discovered a number of hygiene lapses. These included cockroaches crawling by meals storage areas, expired hen mendacity in fridges, rotten greens, rodent droppings and meals packets stored straight on soiled flooring.
Earlier this week on Friday, the company suspended the licences of 10 meals supply chains, together with Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart. The motion adopted inspections of 86 retailers on Thursday. Of those, 60 have been served enchancment notices, 14 had their licences suspended, whereas one outlet was ordered to cease enterprise operations instantly.
The officers discovered cockroaches transferring by the storage space, together with rodent and pest droppings close to meals packets, at an Instamart facility on the primary flooring of Gitaneel Arcade on Hill Highway, Bandra. Mud, cobwebs and meals waste have been additionally discovered throughout the warehouse, with the power additionally missing enough pest-proofing. It had an ant infestation, rusted racks, chipped flooring and poor housekeeping.
One other Instamart facility in Andheri West, close to Azad Nagar Metro station, was discovered storing curry-cut hen that had expired on August 12.
SRK, Ajay Devgn, Tiger Shroff get FDA notices over Vimal advert
The Maharashtra FDA also recently issued show-cause notices to Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff for his or her participation as model endorsers in an commercial for Vimal Elaichi, allegedly a tobacco product.
The show-cause discover offers them a interval of 15 days from the date of receipt to submit a written clarification. The company says the marketing campaign may very well be a surrogate or oblique promotion of prohibited pan masala/tobacco-related merchandise. The company has warned that if no clarification is obtained, or whether it is discovered to be unsatisfactory, additional motion could also be initiated beneath relevant regulation.
