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Indian state food safety bans

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In August 2026 Indian state food regulators began intensified a coordinated crackdown on unhealthy and misleading food products. Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drug Administration announced a maintains its ban on the sale, distribution, advertising and promotion of high‑fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) foods within school campuses and a 50‑metre perimeter, backed by stricter labelling, vigilance and awareness campaigns. Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration issued a statewide has formalised its earlier order that prohibits through a gazette notification signed by Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, prohibiting the manufacture, processing, storage, transport, distribution and sale of non‑dairy analogue (synthetic) paneer statewide for one year. Signed by Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe on twelve months, effective 30 July, the July. The ban covers all districts, hotels, restaurants, catering services and cloud‑kitchens. It follows raids a year‑long surveillance drive that uncovered products made from vegetable oils, milk powder and emulsifiers; laboratory testing found 35.4 % of 308 paneer samples between April 2025 and March 2026 found 35 % non‑compliant, sub‑standard or unsafe, with 30 deemed unsafe. Violators face vegetable oils and other non‑milk fats used as substitutes. Penalties have been heightened: up to six months imprisonment and fines up to a ₹1 lakh, with harsher penalties lakh fine for offenses causing violations, rising to life imprisonment and a minimum ₹10 lakh fine if consumption leads to death. BJP MLA Vikram Pachpute praised the measure, noting its similarity to a recent analogue‑paneer restriction in Chhattisgarh. Enforcement intensified after actions, including a large seizure in Pune of more than over 1,400 kg of suspected fake paneer and related raw materials. The order cites in Pune, continue under the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 and a 2016 related Supreme Court directive to curb milk adulteration. Surprise directives, with surprise inspections, product seizures and heavy fines under sections 50‑59 of the Act are now routine, reinforcing the bans first announced in August. routine.

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