VOL. I · NO. 8567SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2026
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Tukaram Mundhe's Maharashtra FDA suspends Parle Agro warehouse licence: Expired Frooti seized — what else was found?

Filed 1w ago · Via livemint.com · The Buffoon Desk
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Maharashtra's Food and Drug Administration suspended the licence of a Parle Agro-linked Velocity Express warehouse in Mumbai after an overnight raid found expired Appy Fizz, Frooti and Candy Juice worth roughly ₹99,970, sealing the facility and detaining two transport vehicles. The inspection ran from 6 pm to 5 am, one of many actions in a broader statewide crackdown.

A single day's sweep of 86 food delivery-linked establishments led to 14 suspended licences — including five each for Blinkit and Zepto — plus 60 improvement notices and one shutdown order, alongside seizure of 698 kg of dairy stock. Separately, officials filed ten FIRs, made nine arrests, and confiscated banned products like pan masala and gutkha worth over ₹46 lakh, while four Domino's outlets run by Jubilant FoodWorks had their licences suspended over hygiene violations.

In total, the department's 15-raid special campaign tallied confiscated goods worth roughly ₹46.9 lakh, plus inspections of 109 restaurants and dhabas that produced 49 improvement notices and four more suspensions.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
Discovering this many violations in one sweep says less about a sudden crackdown and more about how long the shelves had apparently gone unchecked. Naming the officials leading the charge is a nice touch, but the real story is how much expired product and banned masala was moving freely before anyone with a clipboard showed up.
Source: Read the original at livemint.com → Scored: Double Polka · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0
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