{"id":1032592,"date":"2026-09-02T08:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032592"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:51:09","slug":"maharashtra-fda-suspends-blinkit-2-mumbai-eateries-food-licences-over-serious-hygiene-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/maharashtra-fda-suspends-blinkit-2-mumbai-eateries-food-licences-over-serious-hygiene-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra FDA suspends Blinkit, 2 Mumbai eateries\u2019 food licences over serious hygiene violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the food licences of quick-commerce platform Blinkit\u2019s centre in Akola and two eateries in Mumbai following inspections that found serious hygiene and food safety violations, officials said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The FDA conducted surprise inspections at Delhi Sweet and Bhelpuri House in Malad, Gulzar Mohammadi Hotel in Kurla and a Blinkit facility in Akola. The inspections found food stored near dirty drains, uncertified food handlers, cockroach infestation and failure to comply with earlier improvement notices, according to the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the food licences of quick-commerce platform Blinkit\u2019s centre in Akola and two eateries in Mumbai following inspections that found serious hygiene and food safety violations, officials said on Tuesday. The FDA conducted surprise inspections at Delhi Sweet and Bhelpuri House in Malad, Gulzar Mohammadi Hotel in Kurla and a Blinkit facility in Akola. The inspections found food stored near dirty drains, uncertified food handlers, cockroach infestation and failure to comply with earlier improvement notices, according to the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032619,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032592\/revisions\/1032619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}