
路透社审阅的案件文件显示,印度食品安全当局在关于涉嫌重新进入食品供应链的过期食品产品的调查中,点名了信实集团实体以及埃特纳公司旗下Blinkit和Hyperpure单元的官员,其中包括Blinkit首席执行官阿尔宾德·丹萨。
Indian food safety authorities have named officials of Reliance Group entities and of Eternal’s Blinkit and Hyperpure units, including Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa, in a probe over expired food products that have allegedly re-entered the food supply chain, according to case documents reviewed by Reuters.
拥有孟买的马哈拉施特拉邦食品药品监督管理局在其51岁的负责人图卡拉姆·蒙德的领导下,带头打击食品安全违法行为,包括以卫生状况不佳为由关闭了孟买一些最受欢迎的餐馆以及达美乐和必胜客的门店。该州机构还暂停了一家麦当劳门店的营业执照。
The Food and Drug Administration of Maharashtra state, home to Mumbai, has led a crackdown on food safety under its chief Tukaram Mundhe, 51, including shutting down some of Mumbai’s most popular eateries as well as outlets of Domino’s and Pizza Hut for poor hygiene. The state agency has also suspended the permit of a McDonald’s outlet.
最新的案件已导致食品安全当局向警方报案,涉及向这个世界人口最多国家的数百万家庭销售产品的大型零售和即时电商公司。
The latest case, which has led to a police complaint by the food safety authority, involves large retail and quick-commerce companies, which sell products to millions of households in the world’s most populous country.
路透社审阅的文件显示,马哈拉施特拉邦食品药品监督管理局表示,其官员走访了信实零售、信实消费和佐马托Hyperpure的一些仓库,并且公司官员无法提供可核实的证据,证明过期食品的销毁确实是由其承包商执行的。案件文件指控称:“销毁机构……并未销毁库存。”
Maharashtra's Food and Drug Administration, according to the documents reviewed by Reuters, said its officials visited some warehouses of Reliance Retail, Reliance Consumer and Zomato Hyperpure, and that company officials could not provide verifiable proof that disposal of expired food was actually carried out by their contractors. "The disposal agencies ... do not destroy the stock," the case document alleged.
文件显示,在某个佐马托Hyperpure仓库的案例中,一名公司代表说出了一名承包商作为其销毁机构,但食品药品监督管理局官员无法追踪到该机构。信实和Blinkit没有立即回应路透社的置评请求。
In the case of a Zomato Hyperpure warehouse, a company representative named a contractor as its disposal agency which FDA officials could not trace, according to the documents. Reliance and Blinkit did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
信实零售和信实消费是亿万富翁穆凯什·安巴尼商业集团的一部分。佐马托的Hyperpure是埃特纳公司的一个业务单元,该公司还运营着外卖服务佐马托和即时电商业务Blinkit。
Reliance Retail and Reliance Consumer are part of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s business group. Zomato’s Hyperpure is a unit of Eternal that also runs food delivery service Zomato and quick commerce business Blinkit.
食品药品监督管理局的调查显示,其发现了一种模式,即大型零售和即时电商配送仓库将过期和客户拒收的食品包装交给承包商,承包商将食品转交给无证分拣场。案件文件显示,这些分拣场随后挑出看起来可以销售的包装,最终流入其他零售商和消费市场。
The FDA probe said it found a pattern where large retail and quick commerce distribution warehouses handed over expired and customer-rejected packages of food to contractors who passed the food to unlicensed sorting yards. These sorting yards then separated out saleable-looking packets, which eventually reached other retailers and the consumer market, according to case documents from the probe.
案件文件称:“因此,这条链条从公司仓库延伸至销毁机构、无证场院、中间商、零售商和消费者。”马哈拉施特拉邦食品药品监督管理局周四暂停了该州5家机构的执照,其中3家属于信实,2家属于埃特纳实体。
"The chain thus runs from company warehouse to disposal agency, unlicensed yard, broker, retailer and consumer." The Maharashtra FDA on Thursday suspended the licences of five establishments in the state, three of Reliance and two of Eternal entities, the case documents said.
在印度,食品安全法的执行传统上较为薄弱,最近一轮广泛的打击行动赢得了大规模的公众支持。
Enforcement of food safety laws has traditionally been weak in India and the recent round of extensive crackdowns has garnered large-scale public support.
8月,印度当局在孟买突查了一处非法窝点,该窝点伪造百事公司、雀巢、可口可乐和联合利华生产的原装食品的保质期和营养信息,以便将其出口到其他国家。
In August, Indian authorities raided an illegal operation in Mumbai that faked expiry dates and nutritional information on original food products manufactured by PepsiCo (PEP.O), Nestle (NESN.S), Coca-Cola (KO.N) and Unilever, so they could be exported to other countries.