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The Maharashtra FDA has seized expired Frooti, Appy Fizz and Candy Juice worth ₹99,970 from a warehouse in Prayag Nagar, Chembur. The products were prohibited from further sale or transport, the warehouse was sealed, two vehicles were impounded, and the food business licence of the premises was suspended. 0
For a customer, the moment of purchase is usually where food safety becomes visible. We check the expiry date on the bottle, but we rarely think about everything that happens before that bottle reaches a shop.
That is where this incident matters.
A warehouse is part of the food chain too. Products have to be stored, monitored and moved through the system before they ever reach the shelf. An expired product sitting in a warehouse is not just an old bottle waiting to be noticed. It is a product that should have been identified and removed from the supply chain before it had any chance of reaching a customer.
The FDA's intervention stopped the seized stock from being sold or transported further. But the larger lesson is that food safety cannot begin only when a customer picks up a product or when an inspector walks through the door.
It has to work much earlier, behind the scenes, where customers cannot see it.
Food safety doesn't begin at the shop. It begins with making sure what shouldn't be sold never reaches even the warehouse.