{"id":1038373,"date":"2026-09-24T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038373"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:03:25","slug":"amazon-zepto-3-other-platforms-face-fssais-penal-action-over-misleading-claims-which-products-did-it-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/amazon-zepto-3-other-platforms-face-fssais-penal-action-over-misleading-claims-which-products-did-it-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Zepto &amp; 3 other platforms face FSSAI&#8217;s penal action over misleading claims: Which products did it flag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Wednesday said it took regulatory action against five major e-commerce platforms \u2014 Amazon, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart India and Zepto \u2014 over alleged violations of food safety rules, including misleading claims and the sale of restricted products.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, the food regulator said it had launched a &#8220;major crackdown on e-commerce platforms, including Amazon, Swiggy, BigBasket, Flipkart India and Zepto over regulatory non-compliances&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Wednesday said it took regulatory action against five major e-commerce platforms \u2014 Amazon, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart India and Zepto \u2014 over alleged violations of food safety rules, including misleading claims and the sale of restricted products. In a social media post, the food regulator said it had launched a &#8220;major crackdown on e-commerce platforms, including Amazon, Swiggy, BigBasket, Flipkart India and Zepto over regulatory non-compliances&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038373","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038377,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038373\/revisions\/1038377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}