The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s food safety department found 27 substandard food samples and sealed or closed 19 food businesses during inspections conducted across the city between 1 October and 2 November 2026. The action followed checks at 2,226 food-related establishments and covered products including ghee, mawa, paneer, butter and sauces.
According to the report by Gujarat Samachar – Ahmedabad, AMC teams collected 841 samples during the month-long drive. The samples included dairy products, sweets, fafda-jalebi, savouries, gram flour, flour, edible oil, spices and other food items. Of these, samples of ghee, butter, tomato sauce, dabeli, puff, paneer, mawa, fenugreek and sweet mawa were declared substandard.
The inspections were carried out under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, at establishments involved in the manufacture, storage, sale and distribution of food. AMC issued notices to 660 establishments and recovered administrative charges totalling Rs 11.28 lakh, the report said. A total of 1,345 kg and 1,289 litres of food products were also destroyed during the period.
The civic food department also conducted 614 tests for total polar compounds, or TPC, in cooking oil. The report said a gathiya-making unit in Vastral recorded a TPC level of 32, while a bhajiya-pakoda unit in the Pallavnagar Society area of Naranpura recorded a level of 27.5. Both establishments were also found to have unhygienic conditions and faced action.
Other violations cited in the inspection included the absence of a valid FSSAI licence or registration, food production in unhygienic surroundings, discrepancies in materials used for making sauces and the lack of an authorised contract for disposing of used cooking oil. An establishment identified as Bharat Food in Vatva also faced action after three previously collected sauce samples were declared substandard, according to the report.
The latest figures come amid a broader increase in AMC’s food-safety enforcement activity. From January to October 2026, the department collected 7,339 samples, of which 327 were declared substandard, and recovered penalties of Rs 1,01,65,800. During the corresponding period in 2025, AMC collected 4,071 samples, found 131 substandard samples and recovered Rs 62,11,600 in penalties.
AMC’s food department said inspections of food businesses would continue in the coming days, with particular attention to hygiene standards and licence and registration compliance. The civic body said establishments violating the rules would face action under the Food Safety and Standards Act and the Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act.
