Maharashtra Food Safety Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe is running the department like a real enforcement unit, not a paperwork office.
Recent actions include:
• Surprise raids on restaurants and hotels
• Multiple licences suspended or cancelled
• Over ₹1.9 crore worth of food stock seized in a single drive
• Gutkha worth ₹11 lakh recovered
• 12 establishments in Pune and Satara suspended
• 4 Domino’s outlets and 1 Pizza Hut outlet shut
• Quick-commerce warehouses raided, 12 permits suspended
• Blinkit licence cancelled after cockroach infestation found
• Expired soft drinks seized from a warehouse
For years, food safety in many places meant files and forms. Mundhe is treating it as what it should be — actual inspection of what’s being served and sold to people.
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Maharashtra: The Food and Drug Administration conducted a special inspection drive across 86 establishments selling items via online platforms like Zepto, Blinkit & Instamart. 1 establishment was ordered to halt operations, 60 improvement notices were issued, and 14 licenses were suspended (Blinkit-5, Zepto-5, Instamart-2, Bhagwati Store-7, Swinsta Ent Pvt. Limited-1).
(Visuals from the raids conducted at multiple locations across the state)
The Maharashtra Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the food-business licences of four Domino’s Pizza outlets operated by Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd. following inspections that found multiple food-safety and hygiene violations.
The affected outlets are in Vile Parle West, Borivali West and R-City Mall, Ghatkopar, Mumbai, and Malakapour, Karad, Satara. Reported deficiencies included inadequate hygiene and sanitation, pest-control issues, improper food storage and temperature monitoring, lack of segregation between raw and ready-to-eat foods, and incomplete food-safety records.
The action was taken under the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011.
(Source: Maharashtra Food & Drug Administration)