Archive · 11 Sep 2026
TG SAFE Inspects Hyderabad Food Establishments, Takes Enforcement Action
Food safety teams checked restaurants, hostels, bakeries, messes and other food businesses.
They inspected 20 places in Hyderabad and 46 places in areas outside the city’s Core Urban Region.
Teams found spoiled or contaminated food, pests and dirty kitchens at some businesses.
They also found expired food and refrigerators that were not clean or properly organised.
Some businesses did not keep the required records or label food correctly.
Inspectors threw away food that was spoiled or infested.
They collected food samples to test for possible adulteration.
One Hyderabad hostel was closed, and three establishments outside Hyderabad were ordered to stop operating because their licences would be suspended.
TG SAFE officials and police inspected 20 food establishments in Hyderabad, while teams checked 46 establishments outside the city’s Core Urban Region.
Inspectors reported spoiled or contaminated food, pest infestations, unhygienic premises, expired items and poor food-handling practices.
Officials identified unclean refrigerators, improper vegetarian and non-vegetarian food segregation, inadequate labelling and record-keeping violations.
Twenty samples were collected in the Hyderabad inspections and 22 samples were sent for testing in the district inspections on suspicion of adulteration.
GVK New Luxury PG Men’s Hostel was closed, improvement notices were planned for multiple establishments, and three establishments outside Hyderabad faced licence suspensions and orders to stop operations.
- Who
- Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs officials, Food Safety Officers and police.
- What
- Special food-safety inspections found multiple violations, led to food being discarded, samples being collected and enforcement actions being initiated.
- When
- The Hyderabad inspections took place on Wednesday; the date of the district inspections was not specified.
- Where
- Food establishments in Hyderabad and establishments outside Hyderabad’s Core Urban Region, including locations in Karimnagar and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district.
- Why
- The inspections were conducted as part of a TG SAFE special drive to check food-safety compliance, investigate suspected adulteration and protect public health.
- Inspecting authority
- Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE)
- Hyderabad inspections
- 20 food establishments were inspected
- District inspections
- 46 restaurants, hotels, bakeries, dhabas, sweet shops and hostels were inspected outside the Core Urban Region
- Samples collected
- 20 samples were collected in the Hyderabad inspections and 22 were sent for testing in the district inspections
- Reported violations
- Spoiled or contaminated food, pest infestation, unhygienic conditions, expired items, poor records, unclean refrigerators and improper segregation or labelling
- Hyderabad enforcement
- GVK New Luxury PG Men’s Hostel was closed for operating without an FSSAI licence or registration
- District enforcement
- FSSAI licences of three establishments were to be suspended, with instructions to stop business operations
- Further action
- Improvement notices were planned for six Hyderabad establishments and 23 establishments outside the Core Urban Region
