food safety
- Telangana
Police lacks authority to investigate food safety cases: Telangana HC
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has ruled that offences relating to food regulatory violations fall exclusively within the statutory domain of authorities empowered under the provisions of the Food Safety and Standards…
- Telangana
Rotten fruits, reused oil seized at Hanamkonda eatery after plastic found in juice
Hyderabad: A customer complaint about plastic pieces found in mango juice led to a food safety crackdown on one of Hanamkonda’s most popular juice outlets, exposing a trail of hygiene violations that…
- India
Rajasthan: Over 100 fall sick after eating sweets at wedding
Jaipur: More than 100 people, including children, fell ill allegedly due to food poisoning after consuming sweets prepared at a wedding function in Rajasthan’s Kotputli-Behror district on Friday, May 8. The incident…
- 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
GHMC notice to 14 outlets found violating food safety near schools, parks
Hyderabad: The Food Safety Wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Sunday, May 3, inspected 81 food establishments in areas frequented by children, including school premises, parks, food courts and bakeries,…
- 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…
- Telangana
Food adulteration drive: Rs 7.78 lakh worth milk, ghee seized in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: In a special drive against milk and ghee adulteration across the state, the Telangana Food Safety Commission seized adulterated dairy products worth Rs 7.78 lakh in Hyderabad alone. On April 16,…
- Hyderabad
Cobwebs, pigeon droppings found in Kompally’s Big Basket warehouse
Hyderabad: Telangana Commissioner of Food Safety team on Saturday, April 18, inspected a Big Basket warehouse in Kompally and found serious violations, including unhygienic transport of food items. The warehouse was operating…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Food safety awareness drive for Begum Bazar traders on April 13
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Kirana Merchants’ Association, in collaboration with the Telangana State Police, the H-FAST Team, and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), will host a public awareness programme…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad food safety unit has seized 76 tonne of impure food: Are raids enough?
Hyderabad: Over the past month, city residents have been confronted with disturbing visuals of the unhygienic conditions under which their everyday pantry staples are prepared, as police crack down on manufacturing units and…
- Hyderabad
1,150 kg of goat heads, offal seized from meat shop in Hyderabad’s Balapur
Hyderabad: A meat shop running under the name ‘Salami industry’ in the Sultanpur area of Balapur was raided on Friday, April 10 and around 1,150 kg of goat heads, feet, offal were…
- Hyderabad
Man held in Hyderabad for illegal mango ripening, 200 kg mangoes seized
Hyderabad: Goshamahal Police have caught a man for using unsafe methods to ripen mangoes artificially and seized 200 kg of mangoes. The accused was found using chemical sachets beyond the allowed limit,…
- Telangana
Villages in Nizamabad ban ice cream carts after food safety raids
Hyderabad: Several villages in Nizamabad district have passed resolutions in their Village Development Committees (VDC) to prevent ice-cream carts from entering their villages this summer. They will levy a fine of Rs…
