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FDA awaits replies from restaurants at MCA premises: Tukaram Mundhe

September 6, 2026 admin

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Maharashtra Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe during an interview with PTI, in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration is awaiting a response from five restaurants at Mumbai Cricket Association’s (MCA) Bandra-Kurla Complex premises to the notices over third-party contracting arrangements, according to FDA Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. “MCA…

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Popularity was never my goal; what matters is public health: Tukaram Mundhe

September 6, 2026 admin

Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, in the limelight for his sweeping food-safety crackdown across the State, has said that public health, and not personal popularity, is what matters most to him. Asked if his celebrity-like status following the aggressive food safety crackdown across the state is a distraction, Mr. Mundhe said,…

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FDA suspends license of Mumbai’s Otters Club over analogue paneer; Crackdown on several other establishments across Maharashtra

August 20, 2026 admin

The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the food license of Otters Club in Bandra, for the use of analogue paneer, including several other restaurants in Mumbai. Other establishments across Maharashtra also had their licences suspended after inspections found alleged hygiene, storage, pest-control and food-safety violations during the ongoing statewide enforcement drive between…

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Who is Tukaram Mundhe, the IAS officer leading Maharashtra’s FDA crackdown?

August 16, 2026 admin

Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Tukaram Mundhe — the Commissioner of Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration— is leading a massive crackdown against food and drug adulteration in the State. Several establishments have been raided, shut down, and issued show cause notices over the last few months, with seizures and police complaints following. Many of these…

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Maharashtra FDA to introduce end-to-end traceability of milk to fight adulteration

August 9, 2026 admin

Food and Drugs Authority commissioner Tukaram Mundhe. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini In a bid to arrest the frequent and recurring incidents of milk adulteration in Maharashtra, the State’s Food and Drug Administration has planned a massive digitisation initiative for end-to-end traceability of milk. The project intends to digitise milking records and link them to…

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Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration places one-year ban on analogue, non-dairy paneer

August 5, 2026 admin

The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday (August 5, 2026) imposed a one-year ban on the production, processing, storage, transportation, distribution and sale of ‘analogue/non-dairy paneer’. The FDA’s order was issued under Sections 18, 29, and 30(2) (a) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. This is part of the FDA’s enforcement…

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