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Mumbai FDA suspends food licence of Zepto’s Chembur facility
Mumbai food safety authorities suspended the food licence of Zepto’s Chembur facility and several other establishments over alleged hygiene, storage, temperature-control, pest-management and food-quality violations.
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The licence suspension may be more than an isolated compliance issue: alleged lapses spanning hygiene, storage, temperature control, pest management and food quality point to weaknesses in dark-store operating discipline. If similar conditions exist across Zepto’s network, inspections could trigger further closures, inventory write-offs, delivery disruption and increased compliance spending. The incident could also damage consumer trust in fresh-food purchases, an important category for quick-commerce basket growth and margins.
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