{"id":1038172,"date":"2026-09-24T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038172"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:53:22","slug":"fssai-initiates-action-against-amazon-swiggy-instamart-bigbasket-flipkart-india-over-alleged-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/fssai-initiates-action-against-amazon-swiggy-instamart-bigbasket-flipkart-india-over-alleged-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"FSSAI initiates action against Amazon, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart India over alleged violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Food regulator FSSAI has initiated penal action against five major ecommerce platforms &#8211; Amazon, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart India and Zepto &#8211; over alleged regulatory violations ranging from misleading food claims to the sale and display of prohibited products. <\/p>\n<p>The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India said in a social media post on Wednesday that the action was part of an enforcement drive against regulatory non-compliance by online platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The regulator flagged alleged misbranding and misleading claims, along with the sale or display of prohibited or poisonous food articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Food regulator FSSAI has initiated penal action against five major ecommerce platforms &#8211; Amazon, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart India and Zepto &#8211; over alleged regulatory violations ranging from misleading food claims to the sale and display of prohibited products. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India said in a social media post on Wednesday that the action was part of an enforcement drive against regulatory non-compliance by online platforms. The regulator flagged alleged misbranding and misleading claims, along with the sale or display of prohibited or poisonous food articles.<\/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-1038172","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\/1038172","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=1038172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038201,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038172\/revisions\/1038201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}