Brand record
Zepto: FSSAI record
Last checked 8 October 2026
Zepto is not banned in India; Telangana's food safety authority suspended the licence of its Ram Koti dark store in Hyderabad on 30 Sep 2026, and Karnataka acted against a Zepto warehouse in Hoskote on 11 Aug 2026, both store-level actions.
- Classification
- Licence suspended
- Decided by
- Karnataka Food Safety and Drug Administration
- Reference
- Karnataka Food Safety and Drug Administration action at a Zepto warehouse run by Nippon Express, Hoskote taluk, 11 Aug 2026 (reported)
- Latest action
- 30 September 2026
- Last checked
- 8 October 2026
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Hyderabad: expired food, cockroaches found at Instamart, Zepto and Flipkart dark stores; TG SAFE suspends licences
Our team has checked this record against the published reports, last on 8 October 2026. The government order itself is not published online, or we have not found it yet, so we link the best public report. If you have the order, send it to us and we will link it instead.
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Key facts
- Hoskote warehouse
- Sealed around 11 Aug 2026
- Scope
- Facility-level; platform continued operating
- Grounds
- Not detailed in the sources held
- Context
- Blinkit Malad West licence suspended 7 Aug 2026; Swiggy Instamart nine notices Jul 2026
Update, October 2026: on 30 Sep 2026 Telangana's food safety authority, TG SAFE, inspected 16 quick-commerce dark stores in Hyderabad and found expired and damaged food, fungal vegetables, cockroaches and storage lapses. It suspended four licences, including Zepto's Ram Koti store, which was ordered to stop operating.
Zepto's entry in the 2026 quick-commerce enforcement wave is an action on Tuesday 11 Aug 2026 by Karnataka's Food Safety and Drug Administration at a Zepto warehouse in Hoskote taluk, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, run by the logistics firm Nippon Express. Business Standard, quoting a press release from the Commissioner's office, reported a Rs 25,000 penalty and a recommendation for adjudication. The press release itself has not been found on a government site. The action followed the Maharashtra FDA's suspension of Blinkit's Malad West licence, reported on 11 Aug 2026 and nine notices to Swiggy Instamart in July 2026. Together they show regulators treating dark stores as licensed food premises subject to the same hygiene, storage and expiry rules as any warehouse.
No product recall, brand-level prohibition or platform-wide licence action against Zepto is on record.
What this means for you
A warehouse, not the app
Sealing stops operations at one premises. Deliveries from other dark stores continue.
Watch for the follow-up order
Sealing is usually followed by a formal suspension or a compliance report. Neither is recorded here yet.
This is a record of official orders, not medical advice. Do not stop a prescribed medicine without asking your doctor or pharmacist.
Sources
- Hyderabad: expired food, cockroaches found at Instamart, Zepto and Flipkart dark stores; TG SAFE suspends licencesNewsThe South First · 30 September 2026
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