FSSAI Cracks Down on Ghee and Retail Food Safety
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has taken strict enforcement action against two food businesses, suspending the licence of Marche Retail Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, for 30 days and prohibiting Daman-based SDP Industries Pvt Ltd from selling all variants of its ghee products over serious food-safety and compliance concerns. In the case…
Bombay HC Orders ₹5 Lakh Compensation to Pune Sweet Shop
The Bombay High Court has directed Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to pay ₹5 lakh compensation to Pune-based Gurunanak Dairy and Sweets, after questioning why its food licence remained suspended despite a subsequent inspection finding the establishment 98% compliant with food-safety norms. The shop’s licence was suspended on June 12, 2026, following an inspection…
Uttar Pradesh Bans Analogue Dairy Products
The Uttar Pradesh government has imposed a statewide ban on analogue dairy products, including analogue paneer, ghee, khoya, cream and chhena, as part of a major crackdown on adulterated and counterfeit dairy products. The move by the Yogi Adityanath government aims to protect consumers, strengthen food safety and ensure that milk and milk products sold…
Mathura Raid Exposes 1,500 Kg Fake Paneer
A major food-safety raid in Mathura has exposed 1,500 kg of adulterated paneer and 3,000 litres of adulterated milk, highlighting the continuing risks of dairy adulteration during a period of high consumer demand. According to reports from the Uttar Pradesh Food Safety Department, officials raided a cheese manufacturing unit in Kosi Kalan, Mathura, where the…
SC Questions Delay in Warning Labels for Packaged Foods
The Supreme Court has sharply questioned the FSSAI over the delay in introducing warning labels for packaged foods high in sugar, salt and saturated fat, stressing that consumers—particularly children—should have clear nutritional information before making purchasing decisions. The bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan was hearing a plea seeking front-of-pack warning labels to…
Delhi HC Stays FSSAI Order Against Dabur Labels
The Delhi High Court has granted interim relief to Dabur India by staying the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) recent order that prohibited the sale of food products carrying claims such as “100% Pure”, “100% Natural”, “100% Organic” and similar declarations, marking a significant development in the ongoing debate over food labelling…
Gujarat Warns Dairy Analogue Firms of Licence Cancellation
Gujarat has intensified its crackdown on dairy analogue products, warning that food business operators manufacturing or selling non-compliant analogue dairy products could face suspension or cancellation of their FSSAI licences for violating food safety regulations. The action follows a series of inspections by the Gujarat Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA), which uncovered widespread misuse…
FSSAI Tightens Food Labelling Rules Amid Health Claims
India’s food labelling regulations are coming under sharper regulatory scrutiny as the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) intensifies enforcement against misleading product claims under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising & Claims) Regulations, 2018. The regulator has stated that ambiguous and unverifiable claims such…
Maharashtra Bans Analogue Paneer for One Year
The Maharashtra government has imposed a one-year statewide ban on the manufacture, processing, packing, storage, transportation, distribution, wholesale and retail sale of analogue (non-dairy) paneer, intensifying its crackdown on adulterated dairy products and consumer fraud. The order, issued by Food Safety Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe on July 30, 2026, comes into immediate effect and makes Maharashtra…
HC Stays Suspension of Pune Dairy Licence
The Bombay High Court has stayed the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) suspension of the licence of Pune-based Atharva Milk and Milk Products Industries (AMMPI), observing that the justifiability of the regulator’s action requires further consideration. The court noted that the FDA had suspended the dairy’s licence without first providing an opportunity to rectify…