Amid the continued crackdown over food safety lapses, the FSSAI has suspended the license of Marche Retail Pvt Ltd for serious violations of law and also prohibited Daman-based SDP Industries from selling all variants of ghee.
“Laboratory analysis of the ghee samples detected A-sitosterol, a plant sterol that is required to be absent in ghee, along with non-conformity in the fatty-acid composition. The findings were indicative of the presence of foreign/vegetable fats and raised serious food safety concerns,” the FSSAI noted.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Sunday said it has suspended the license of Marche Retail Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, and has issued a prohibition order to SDP Industries Pvt Ltd, Daman, after “uncovering serious food safety violations”. The license of Marche Retail was suspended after it detected serious non-compliances during inspection and subsequent follow-up scrutiny of the food business premises, food regulator FSSAI said. The FSSAI said that Marche Retail was found operating with “deficiencies relating to design, operational controls, sanitation, personal hygiene, food-handler training and mandatory record-keeping during the inspection”. Its FSSAI license has been suspended for 30 days, with the regulator telling the company to “cease and desist” from all food business activities and directed it to rectify mistakes.
