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Dogs Tear Into Chicken Kept for Shawarma; Food Safety Team Shuts Koyilandy Shop 0
- A to Z, Food Hygiene, General, Health & Wellness, News
- May 26, 2026
Key Update Food Safety officials issued a two-day closure notice to a shawarma shop in Koyilandy in Kozhikode after street dogs attacked chicken that workers had kept outside the shop before opening hours. The incident took place at the Office Shawarma stall located near the old stand in Koyilandy on Tuesday morning. Chicken Kept Outside
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Food Safety Team Seizes 1,040 Water Bottles During Inspection in Indore 0
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- May 25, 2026
Key Update Food Safety officials seized 1,040 bottles of packaged drinking water during an inspection at the Aqua Wing Packaged Drinking Water unit in Tigaria Rao village, Indore, on Sunday. Authorities inspected the directions of Collector Shivam Verma as part of an ongoing summer drive to monitor the quality of food and beverages sold across
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Gutka Ban Exists Only on Paper? Banned Products Still Sold Freely Across Ranchi 0
- A to Z, Food Hygiene, Food Safety, Health & Wellness, News
- May 25, 2026
Key Update Despite the state health, medical education, and family welfare department imposing a complete ban on the manufacture, storage, sale, and distribution of gutka and paan masala products containing tobacco and nicotine, shops across Ranchi, Jharkhand, continue to sell these products openly. On May 4, Ajoy Kumar Singh, the department’s additional chief secretary-cum-state food
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Hotpot Meal Leaves Chinese Woman With 8 cm Oesophageal Ulcer 0

Key Update A recent case from China has raised fresh concerns about safe food consumption habits after a 42-year-old woman developed a severe oesophageal ulcer from eating boiling hotpot food too quickly. The woman, surnamed Wang, from Changsha in Hunan province, reportedly consumed food directly from a boiling hotpot without allowing it to cool during

Watermelon, Noodles Trigger Food Poisoning Scare in Gorakhpur Family 0

key Update A suspected food poisoning incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur hospitalised at least nine members of the same family after they allegedly consumed watermelon and noodles at their home in Malav village under the Belipar police station area. The incident reportedly occurred on May 14. Soon after eating, family members, including children and elderly

Ahmedabad Cracks Down on Fake Paneer, Seizes 1,415 kg of Analogue Paneer 0

Key Update The health department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has intensified its crackdown on the sale of “analogue paneer” after discovering that several restaurants and hotels in Ahmedabad were serving it as regular milk paneer. Over the past three months, officials seized 1,415 kg of suspected analogue paneer during inspections across the city.