Food Manifest 
Report A customer in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, reported that the Food Safety Department delayed filing a complaint for five days about decayed packaged fruit he purchased from a city supermarket. Although he contacted the FSSAI helpline, officials postponed the sample collection process for over five days. Delay in Sample Collection The complainant, a resident of
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Report The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recently seized about 280 kg of sweets and savoury items valued at Rs 72,000 for violating food safety standards in Coimbatore. FSSAI officials warned consumers to be cautious when buying sweets and savoury items for Deepavali, as some manufacturers recycle used cooking oil from sweet
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Report After eating momos from a roadside stand in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad, a woman died, and her two young daughters, along with fifty others, were hospitalized. Reports indicate that she died earlier this week, while the other patients are recovering in hospitals across the city. On October 25, Reshma Begum, 31, and her daughters,
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Report A taluk-level special squad conducted inspections in various food joints and business establishments in Neduvathur and Pavithreshwaram panchayats in Kottarakkara, Kollam, Kerala, seizing stale food and contaminated oil. The team found that the food was prepared in unhygienic conditions. They destroyed the stale food and filed a case for poor sanitation practices. Additionally, several
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E. coli Outbreaks in Ireland In two separate E. coli outbreaks, more than a dozen individuals have fallen ill in Ireland, with additional cases reported in Iceland. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) in Ireland has confirmed thirteen laboratory cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157 linked to the community outbreak. Fortunately, no deaths
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Merck and Tinkle Launch Food Safety Comic Books Leading pharmaceutical company Merck partnered with Tinkle to launch two engaging comic books at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. Part of Merck’s #SafeFoodFirst campaign, which promotes food safety, the books debuted before an audience of over 200 students from Bengaluru’s government schools. Comics for Food
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