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FSSAI adds 4 law firms, suspends licences in food safety crackdown
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has empanelled four additional law firms, SS Rana & Co, Singh & Associates, Suri & Co and GP Law Chambers, to handle litigation,…
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has empanelled four additional law firms, SS Rana & Co, Singh & Associates, Suri & Co and GP Law Chambers, to handle litigation, consumer disputes and legal advisory work. The regulator now has eight law firms on its panel and is handling over 800 cases across the country, according to Bar and Bench.
Separately, FSSAI has suspended licences of three food businesses, Narayani Foods & Beverages, Zaiqaa Organixs Pvt Ltd and AB Enterprise, for hygiene failures and non-compliance. It has also imposed prohibition orders and penalties on manufacturers in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Karnataka, including a unit selling substandard Motichoor Laddoo and another supplying substandard iodised salt. Inspections in Bengaluru led to notices and a warehouse closure.
The Indian Opinion
FSSAI's flurry of enforcement is welcome, but headlines on licence suspensions risk sounding more dramatic than the pattern suggests. Single-plant penalties do not mean a systemic clean-up is underway. The regulator's own data on the 800-odd pending cases, how many result in convictions versus warnings, is the real test. Meanwhile, Times Now's campaign against e-commerce opacity is useful, but the former director's quote about Rs 10-lakh penalties for misleading ads raises a blunt question: when will FSSAI actually impose those maximum penalties on a big player? Watch for the next action against a quick-commerce giant, not a small factory.
Sources (3): barandbench.com, timesnownews.com, timesnownews.com (2)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
