{
  "id": 10028155,
  "title": "Food Safety department shuts down 25 eateries for violations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/food-safety-department-shuts-down-25-eateries-for-violations",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-26T17:35:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/food-safety-department-shuts-down-25-eateries-for-violations/article71513897.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Food Safety department in Andhra Pradesh has conducted surprise inspections across the state, ultimately shutting down 25 eateries for violations of food safety, hygiene, and sanitation standards. The simultaneous inspections covered 70 hotels, restaurants, and other eateries in all 28 districts, revealing serious issues such as unhygienic kitchens, improper food storage, unauthorized artificial colours and flavour enhancers, and the prolonged storage of cooked food in poorly maintained freezers. Over 100 kg of unfit-to-consume cooked food was seized and destroyed, and 30 legal cases were filed against the establishments, with 10 cases involving those operating without valid food safety licences.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}