food safety
- 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…
- Hyderabad
Meat shop in Hyderabad repeatedly sold rotten meat despite previous FIRs
Hyderabad: A meat shop running under the name “A to Z Sheep and Goat offal” in Mangalhat’s Aman Nagar Colony, has allegedly been selling spoiled meat despite piling first information reports (FIR)…
- Hyderabad
Illegal bakery raided in Hyderabad, material worth Rs 2.77 lakh seized
Hyderabad: A bakery allegedly running without a valid license and under unhygienic conditions was raided by Tappachabutra Police on Thursday, April 2, officials said. The bakery had been operating under the name…
- Hyderabad
Ice cream parlour in Hyderabad raided for unhygienic food manufacture
Hyderabad: An ice cream parlour in Hyderabad’s Mehdipatnam area was raided for manufacturing adulterated and unhygienic food, police said on Tuesday, March 31. The owner has been arrested. The Commissioner’s Task Force…
- Hyderabad
Raid at namkeen, chikki and Osmania biscuit units in Hyderabad; 3 held
Hyderabad: Mailardevpally police, along with the newly constituted Hyderabad Food Adulteration Safety Team (H-Fast), on Saturday, March 28, conducted raids at three food manufacturing units in Babul Reddy Nagar and Laxmiguda areas…
- Hyderabad
Insect-infested cashews, candies, badam milk, dumped in Telangana inspections
Hyderabad: Surprise inspections by the Flying Squad of the Food Safety Department, Telangana, at several manufacturing units across the state in the past week revealed grave food safety violations. Contaminated items such…
- Hyderabad
Unsafe biscuits, buns, toast: Another bakery unit raided in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Another bakery in Hyderabad, the third one this week, was raided by the police over food safety violations, and a multitude of products, including Osmania biscuits, fan biscuits, rusk, bun, kaju…
