Archive · 9 Aug 2026
Bengaluru Food Safety Officials Seize Expiry-Date Sauces for Lab Tests
Food safety inspectors are people whose job is to make sure the food we eat is safe and clean.
They visited hotels in Bengaluru and found problems like moldy vegetables and dirty food storage.
The next day, they checked two big warehouses that supply food to hotels.
In these warehouses, they found many bottles of sauce that were close to their expiry date.
Food that is close to expiring can be unsafe to eat, so the inspectors took the sauces away.
They also took samples of meat and other foods to test in a laboratory.
They even found about 10 litres of drinks, like strawberry-flavoured beverages, that were near their expiry date.
The inspectors want to make sure hotels only serve fresh and safe food to their customers.
The warehouse companies could face legal action if they broke the food safety rules.
This helps everyone trust that the food served in hotels is safe to eat.
Food Safety officials inspected food storage and distribution centres in Bengaluru on the second day of an inspection drive.
Sauces nearing their expiry date, including 70 bottles of soy sauce, were seized from two hotel food suppliers.
The seized sauces were sent for laboratory analysis.
Five meat samples and 13 other food samples were collected and subjected to lab analysis.
About 10 litres of beverages, including strawberry-flavoured beverages nearing expiry, were also seized.
- Who
- Food Safety and Drugs Administration officials, acting under the guidance of Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader, inspected suppliers Coldman Logistics Private Limited and Radhakrishna Foodland Limited.
- What
- Sauces nearing their expiry date were seized and sent for lab tests, along with about 10 litres of beverages nearing expiry; 5 meat samples and 13 other food samples were also collected for analysis.
- When
- Saturday, the second day of the inspection drive following earlier checks of star hotels in Bengaluru.
- Where
- Food storage and distribution centres of two hotel food suppliers in Bengaluru.
- Why
- To enforce food safety and quality requirements under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 amid concerns over expired and unhygienic food products.
- Location
- Bengaluru
- Inspected facilities
- Coldman Logistics Private Limited and Radhakrishna Foodland Limited
- Sauces seized
- 70 soy sauce bottles plus various other sauce varieties nearing expiry
- Samples collected
- 5 meat samples and 13 other food samples
- Beverages seized
- About 10 litres, including strawberry-flavoured beverages
- Inspection oversight
- Minister of Health and Family Welfare U.T. Khader
- Legal framework
- Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and Food Safety Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011