Crusading Maharashtra food safety chief targets Blinkit, Swiggy, Zepto in hygiene crackdown

Maharashtra state’s food safety chief has intensified a crackdown on the food and grocery industries, suspending the permits of 12 warehouses of Indian grocery giants Eternal, Swiggy and Zepto after finding cockroach infestations and other unhygienic conditions.

The latest raids targeting the “quick commerce” sector, where companies deliver groceries within minutes, come after the state’s new food safety head, Tukaram Mundhe, 51, shut some of Mumbai’s most popular eateries for poor hygiene.