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FSSAI Orders A Recall Of One Everest Cumin Batch

Ad Tribe! Bureau2 min read
A sealed spice pouch and a laboratory flask, as halftone cutouts, for the FSSAI recall of an Everest cumin powder batch

FSSAI has directed Everest Food Products Private Limited to immediately recall one batch of its pre-packed cumin powder after testing found pesticide residues above permitted limits. The order names batch number E080668761.

  • Regulator: the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
  • Product: pre-packed cumin powder, batch number E080668761 only
  • Residues found: Azoxystrobin and Thiamethoxam, above statutory Maximum Residue Limits
  • Where the sample came from: the premises of Riverside Resorts and Holiday Homes Pvt Ltd in Goa
  • Who tested it: the Referral Food Laboratory, analysing the sample after an appeal by the manufacturer
  • Classification: unsafe under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
  • What the company must do: halt distribution, trace and withdraw affected units, keep inventory records, and file periodic recall status reports and an internal corrective action report within the mandated timelines

Why The Batch Number Matters More Than The Brand Name

Because a recall scoped to one batch is a supply-chain event, not a product verdict, and the distinction is the whole of the communications problem. The order covers units bearing one code. Everything a consumer has in the kitchen cupboard under the same label is outside it.

That distinction almost never survives the first share. Which is why the brands that come out of these intact are the ones that publish the batch number themselves, early and plainly, rather than letting a screenshot do the explaining.

What It Sits Inside

A wider enforcement run. FSSAI has opened penal proceedings against e-commerce platforms over misleading food claims, proposed barring non-dairy products from using the word paneer, and pushed forward mandatory front-of-pack labelling for foods high in fat, sugar and salt, ahead of a festive-season drive against adulteration.

For anyone marketing packaged food, that is the operative signal. Claims, labelling and listings are all being read at once, and the festive window is when they will be read hardest.

What Everest Has To Do Next

Trace, withdraw and report. The order also requires an internal corrective action report, which is the part that decides whether this reads as a single bad batch or as a process that lets one through.

More on the company at everestspices.com. More brands.

#food safety#fssai#product recall
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