Maharashtra FDA steps up food-safety crackdown across restaurants, clubs and school zones
Under FDA chief Tukaram Mundhe, Maharashtra is intensifying inspections, licence suspensions and anti-adulteration action. The regulator is also enforcing a ban on junk food and soft drinks within 50 metres of schools, raising compliance pressure on food-service operators.
Maharashtra FDA is intensifying food-safety enforcement, suspending licences at restaurants and clubs, targeting adulteration and gutkha, and banning junk food and soft-drink sales within 50 metres of schools.
Why this matters
The action follows FDA licence suspensions at Mumbai clubs for hygiene breaches and school-canteen FSSAI licensing rules with a junk-food ban. It comes as staff report long shifts and vacancies that may strain testing quality.
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