New Delhi: A FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) team raided a Zomato hypercure warehouse in Telangana’s Hyderabad after food safety related concerns. The FSSAI team had reportedly found 90 packets of button mushroom with incorrect packaging dates. The raid comes in the backdrop of death of a woman who died after eating momos last week.
Meanwhile, Zomato CEO Deepinder has clarified and expressed frustration questioning why the media is taking about the packets that were never going to the market for use.
FSSAI raid on Zomato warehouse on October 29
The raid was carried out on October 29 and FSSAI got hold of the 18 kg of button mushrooms which had a packaging date of October 30, said a report in Times of India.
Clarifying on the issue, Deepinder Goyal posted on social media platform X, “Hello all – just want to clarify that the fssai team noted that 90 packets of button mushrooms had incorrect packaging date – these were already identified by our warehouse team and were rejected during an inward QC. This is not usual, and was due to a manual typing error on the vendor’s side. Still, the concerned vendor has been delisted from our database. At Hyperpure, we have stringent inward guidelines and tech systems that helped our teams to identify this error in time.”
Committed to food safety standards: Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal
“We are committed to upholding industry food safety standards and are focused on not compromising on product quality at any stage of the supply chain. The recent food safety inspection at our Hyderabad warehouse resulted in the Hyperpure warehouse achieving an A+ rating, highest benchmark in their ranking,” ZOmato CEO further added.
Goyal also seemed upset over the media for highlighting the issue.
He further said, “I am not sure why just these small number of mushroom packets worth Rs 7,200 (out of the crores of inventory in the warehouse), which were never going to make it to customers, are being talked about the media, while we got an A+ rating. Maybe some people benefit from the virality which they get at the expense of pulling down the Zomato brand. And maybe we all love to believe the narrative that “all big business is bad business”.”
