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FDA teams find expired food in Bengaluru hotels
Times of India··8 Aug
On August 7, Karnataka FDA sent 30 teams to inspect 26 three-star and five-star hotels in Bengaluru. Officials collected 35 samples and reported expired food, fungal vegetables, poor hygiene, mislabelling, and weak segregation of vegetarian and non-vegetarian items. Health Minister U.T. Khader ordered the statewide hotel inspection drive after repeated public complaints about kitchen standards.
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What It Means For You
- Bengaluru diners can treat star ratings as incomplete proof of kitchen hygiene after FDA findings on expired stock and poor storage.
- Hotel guests can ask properties about recent kitchen audits, cold-chain logs, and veg and non-veg segregation rules.
- Anyone reporting food safety issues can note that ministerial complaints helped trigger a multi-team inspection drive.
What's Happening
- On August 7, 30 FDA teams inspected 26 three-star and five-star Bengaluru hotels and collected 35 samples.
- Inspectors reported expired food, fungal vegetables, poor hygiene, mislabelling, and weak veg and non-veg segregation.
- Seizures included large quantities at The Lalit Ashok, Radisson Blu Atria, and Taj Yeshwantpur, with action under the FSS Act, 2006.
How Food Safety Law Reaches Luxury Kitchens
- The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, allows sampling, seizure, and prosecution for unsafe or mislabelled food.
- Health Minister U.T. Khader ordered the drive after public complaints about hotel kitchen standards.
- Premium hotels remain under the same hygiene and labelling duties as other licensed food businesses in the city.
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