FSSAI suspends Marche Retail licence for 30 days; halts SDP ghee sales
FSSAI has suspended Marche Retail’s food licence over sanitation, hygiene, temperature-control and licensing gaps. Separately, SDP Industries must stop selling Shraddha, Shree Saras and Gokul ghee after tests reportedly found foreign or vegetable fats.
What happened
FSSAI suspended Marche Retail’s food licence for 30 days over sanitation, hygiene, temperature-control and licensing deficiencies. Separately, it ordered SDP
Key facts
- 30 days
- 37% compliance score
Why this matters
Food-safety diligence should be intensified for any retail or packaged-food targets, with particular focus on licence status, quality controls, supplier traceability and recall exposure.
What to watch
- Whether FSSAI specifies the affected Marche licence scope, outlets, corrective conditions and any reopening timeline.
- Results of follow-up inspections, product sampling or any extension, cancellation or monetary penalty against Marche Retail.
- Batch numbers, manufacturing dates, geographic distribution and recall instructions for Shraddha, Shree Saras and Gokul ghee.
- Any SDP appeal, retest result, public clarification or widening of the stop-sale order to other products or facilities.
- Delisting actions by major grocery chains and e-commerce platforms, plus evidence of price or availability shifts in the ghee category.
- Whether state food-safety authorities launch parallel inspections of dairy-fat manufacturers and food-service retailers.
- Marche Retail is likely to submit a corrective-action plan, deep-clean affected facilities, recalibrate cold-chain systems and seek FSSAI reinspection before the 30-day period ends.
- Store operators may temporarily restrict food preparation and prioritize sealed third-party packaged products where legally permitted, while managing perishables write-offs.
- SDP Industries is likely to halt dispatches, isolate batches, initiate retailer withdrawals and contest or seek confirmatory testing of the reported adulteration findings.
- Modern trade, quick-commerce and distributors may delist or quarantine the named ghee brands preemptively and request certificates of analysis from other dairy-fat suppliers.
- Competing ghee brands and organized food retailers may use compliance, testing and traceability claims in trade and consumer messaging.