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| Canada assesses risks to imports after India raid finds fake labels on food products |
| 2026-09-04 |
| [Reuters] The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking into whether an illegal operation in India that labelled chips and other food products with fake nutrition information and expiry dates represents a risk to the country's imports. Indian authorities raided a Mumbai warehouse last week, seizing products worth nearly $80,000 as well as chemicals and printing machines used to replace old dates and nutritional information on PepsiCo (PEP.O), Nestle (NESN.S), Coca-Cola (KO.N) and Unilever (ULVR.L) products to make them suitable for export. The companies have not been accused of any wrongdoing, and the investigation is focusing on rogue exporters. The Canadian agency "is monitoring the situation to determine whether it presents any risk to imports into Canada. At this time, the CFIA has no information indicating that products associated with this operation entered Canada," it said in a statement to Reuters. "The Canadian Food Inspection Agency takes food fraud, including false date markings, inaccurate nutrition information, and misleading origin claims seriously," it added. It is the first foreign agency to react to the incident. The crackdown in Mumbai is part of an unprecedented food safety drive in India, where both federal and state authorities are aggressively checking for poor hygiene standards or breaches of food safety laws, and have at times even issued instant suspension orders. |
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