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Thane restaurant sold cheese analogue as paneer, Bombay HC backs licence action
The Maharashtra FDA's crackdown on dairy substitutes has widened, with a Thane restaurant facing licence action after laboratory tests found foreign fat in its paneer sample. The state also seized prohibited food stocks worth lakhs.
The Bombay High Court has refused to entertain a plea challenging the suspension of a Thane restaurant’s food licence after a government laboratory found foreign fat in a paneer sample, with the court directing the establishment to pursue an appeal before the Commissioner of Food Safety.
The case concerns M/s Udupi Swad Restaurant in Thane, against which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had suspended the food licence after its officials found that paneer being sold at the establishment was actually a cheese analogue containing non-dairy fat.
