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FSSAI hires 4 law firms, steps up food safety crackdown across India
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has onboarded four additional law firms, SS Rana & Co, Singh & Associates, Suri & Co and GP Law Chambers, taking its total empanelled…
The Story in Brief
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has onboarded four additional law firms, SS Rana & Co, Singh & Associates, Suri & Co and GP Law Chambers, taking its total empanelled firms to eight. The move comes as FSSAI and state authorities intensify inspections and enforcement action against restaurants, cloud kitchens, warehouses and manufacturing units nationwide. The regulator is handling over 800 cases covering litigation, consumer disputes and advisory work. Recent actions include seizure of food products, licence suspensions and prohibition orders in Bengaluru, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Karnataka. In one case, M/s Dharwad Mishra Pedha in Karnataka was penalised for selling substandard Motichoor Laddoo. The Delhi High Court recently stayed an FSSAI order against Dabur India over “100% Pure” label claims.
The Indian Opinion
The official narrative paints FSSAI as a superhero swooping in to save consumers from bad laddoos and salty salt. The counter-narrative grumbles about a harassment campaign against small businesses by a regulator with too many lawyers. Neither extreme is fair. The real test will be whether the same enforcement energy targets the big fish, packaged goods and quick-commerce giants, whose legal muscle dwarfs a district pedha-maker. Numbers of large-company licence suspensions in the next quarter will tell us who this crackdown is really for.
Sources (2): barandbench.com, timesnownews.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
