# FSSAI suspends Marche Retail licence, stops SDP ghee sales 2026-08-24T08:36:59+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has suspended the licence of New Delhi-based Marche Retail for 30 days and ordered Daman-based SDP Industries to stop selling all variants of its ghee. The actions follow inspections that found food safety violations. An FSSAI inspection at Marche Retail scored 37% compliance, flagging poor sanitation, inadequate training, improper segregation of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food, and unlicensed food-service operations. The company must correct all deficiencies and pass a verification check before resuming business. Separately, tests on SDP Industries' ghee, sold under the brands Shraddha, Shree Saras and Gokul, found beta-sitosterol and abnormal fatty-acid composition, evidence, the regulator said, of adulteration with foreign or vegetable fats. A referral laboratory upheld the finding after the company appealed. SDP must halt all ghee sales until further orders. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Marche Retail runs licensed food outlets inside hospitals and gurdwaras, so the 30-day suspension could affect patient meals and langar operations. The 37% compliance score is unusually low: most major retailers score above 70% in FSSAI inspections. For SDP Industries, the same adulteration pattern involving beta-sitosterol led to a 90-day suspension in 2023. FSSAI's referral lab confirmation means the company cannot challenge the finding again at this stage. The next practical signal is whether either entity approaches the Food Safety Appellate Tribunal before the 30-day window expires. ## Coverage - retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com Leads with the enforcement action and cites the regulator's notice verbatim, no counter or defence from either company. Straight report of violations with no commentary. This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Daman, FSSAI, Marche Retail, New Delhi, SDP Industries, Shraddha Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/fssai-suspends-marche-retail-licence-stops-sdp-ghee-sales/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/fssai-suspends-marche-retail-licence-stops-sdp-ghee-sales/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/