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Zomato Hyderabad Warehouse Raid Reveals 'Future Packing Date' on Mushrooms; CEO Addresses Concerns

November 05, 2024 2 min read
author Anamika Mishra, Sub Editor
Following a raid by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) at Zomato’s Hyperpure warehouse in Hyderabad, 90 packets of button mushrooms were discovered with incorrect packaging dates, indicating a “future packing date.” In response, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal clarified that these mushrooms had been flagged and rejected by the warehouse team during quality control (QC) checks. In a post on the social media platform X, Goyal attributed the issue to a "manual typing error on the vendor’s side." He emphasized that the packets in question had already been identified and rejected by their QC process. “This is not typical, and we take such matters seriously,” Goyal stated. He also mentioned that the vendor responsible for the error has been delisted from their database. He reassured stakeholders that Hyperpure maintains strict guidelines and technological systems

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