Food adulteration
- Health
FSSAI seeks ban on making, sale of analogue product as paneer’
New Delhi: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed banning the manufacture and sale of ‘analogue product as paneer’, as it steps up the clampdown on food adulteration and…
- Bangalore
1,033 kg of food products seized in raids in Karnataka
Haveri: Food safety officials, along with a team led by the Ranebennur tahsildar, conducted surprise inspections at food processing units in Ranebennur taluk and seized 1,033 kg of food products. The inspections…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Spice unit mixed sawdust in chilli powder, busted
Hyderabad: Special Operation Team Malkajgiri and Food Adulteration Surveillance teams conducted a raid at Sai Tirumala Enterprises in Srinivas Nagar Colony within the Medipally Police Station limits on Thursday, August 20, and…
- Hyderabad
36 tonnes of adulterated ghee seized in Hyderabad crackdown
Hyderabad: In a major crackdown on food adulteration, the Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST) of the Commissioner’s Task Force, in coordination with the Food Safety Department, seized about 36 tonnes of…
- Telangana
Senior IPS officer Avinash Mohanty takes charge of TG SAFE
Hyderabad: Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Avinash Mohanty on Monday, August 17, took charge as the Commissioner of the Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE), a new…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad food unit raid: 1000 kg curd, 6 kg khowa seized
Hyderabad: A food manufacturing unit in Hyderabad’s Jawaharnagar was raided on Sunday, August 16, during which 1,000 kg of curd and 6 kg of khowa were seized. Jawaharnagar police raided the unauthorised…
- Hyderabad
398 Telangana food samples fail tests, but 0 penalties, convictions
Hyderabad: Telangana recorded not a single penalty or conviction for food safety violations in 2025-26, even as 398 of the 3,576 samples tested in the state, 11.1 percent, failed quality checks, according…
- Hyderabad
Industrial dyes, talcum powder found in spice raids in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police’s H-FAST team has busted a large-scale spice adulteration racket, seizing 25 tonne of adulterated spices and another 89 tonne of raw material allegedly kept for further adulteration and processing,…
- Telangana
Telangana CM orders strict law against food adulteration
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday, July 18, directed officials to draft a stringent law to curb the growing menace of food adulteration and spurious medicines. Reddy, who held…
- Telangana
BRS leaders to face action over Telangana hostel food expose
Hyderabad: Labour and Mines Minister G Vivek Venkatswamy directed the Circle Inspector to take action against Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders who entered a government minority residential school in Chennur and photographed…
- Hyderabad
Paratha unit in Tadban raided over post-dated packs, flies
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST) raided a paratha manufacturing unit in Tadban on Monday, June 29, acting on a complaint from its task force team. The inspection uncovered unhygienic production…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Food safety inspection flags unsafe oil at KFC outlet in Kondapur
Hyderabad: A food safety inspection has flagged violations related to cooking oil quality at a KFC outlet in Kondapur. According to food safety authorities, a team conducted a random inspection at the…
- Hyderabad
H-FAST gives traders 15-day deadline to halt sale of loose edible oil
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST) on Sunday, April 26, announced a 15-day deadline to halt the sale of loose edible oil, citing serious health risks and scope for adulteration. The…
- Hyderabad
H-FAST raids seize 3,000 kg of adulterated tea powder, 10 arrested
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST) conducted raids across the city, seizing 3,000 kg of adulterated tea powder and 1,500 kg of expired tea powder, among others. The raids were…
- Hyderabad
Food adulteration in Hyderabad: Fried onion unit sealed in Kukatpally
Hyderabad: Food safety officials, on Wednesday, April 22, raided a manufacturing unit located at Hyderabad’s Kukatpally, where fried onions were processed unhygienically. Acting on information, a surprise check at Naseeb Brishta in…
