{
  "id": 458825,
  "title": "Bengaluru Food Safety Raids Find Rotten Meat, Fish In Five-Star Hotels And High-End Restaurants",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/bengaluru-food-safety-raids-find-rotten-meat-fish-in-five-star-hotels",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-10T10:27:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/bengaluru-food-safety-raids-find-rotten-meat-fish-in-five-star-hotels-and-high-end-restaurants"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Bengaluru witnessed a crackdown on food safety by officials recently, who discovered rotten meat, fish, and vegetables in numerous high-end hotels and restaurants. Over a three-day period, the Food Department ventured out to inspect hotels across the city, ultimately destroying significant amounts of stale food.\n\nDuring these inspections, several alarming discoveries were made. At Hotel Sky in UB City, officials found rotten chicken and beef weighing 45 kg, alongside 6 kg of vegetable cutlet and 15 liters of used cooking oil, totalling 51 kg of food articles. In another incident, fish stored at a restaurant in UB City Mall for over a year was deemed unfit for consumption, as fish should ideally be kept for no more than a month in cold storages.\n\nThe problem extended to other categories as well, with chicken and mutton being found to have exceeded their expiry dates and stored in restaurants beyond their safe period. Furthermore, some establishments were found to be tampering with manufacturing and expiry date stickers on a weekly basis, keeping the food in use far past its safe consumption date.\n\nFood Department Commissioner Srinivas emphasized that such practices are highly concerning and have led to the destruction of the affected food materials. Samples found to be stale were sent for laboratory analysis, and those confirmed to be stale were destroyed. The officials began their raids on Saturday evening, targeting prestigious five-star hotels such as Lalit Ashok, Shangri La, Four Seasons, Vivanta Whitefield, Radisson Bule, and Vivanta Yeshwantpur.\n\nOn Sunday, the inspections continued at high-end pubs and eateries near MG Road, including several restaurants within the UB City mall. In Hotel Sky alone, 45 kg of rotten chicken and beef, 6 kg of cutlet, and 15 liters of used oil were recovered. Additional seizures included 50 kg of rotten duck meat and 5 kg of fish in Royal Chain hotels, alongside similar findings in other establishments. Alongside the destruction of stale food, the department issued show cause notices to all the implicated restaurants, demanding an explanation as to why their licenses should not be terminated.",
  "summary": "Bengaluru, Aug 10: The Food safety officials, who have been on a drive against the unsafe food supply in Bengaluru restaurants have unearthed rotten meat, fish, vegetables in many high end hotels and restaurants, including five star hotels of Bengaluru city. For the last three days, the Food Department officials have been on the drive and have destroyed large quantities of such stale food stored…",
  "key_points": [
    "Bengaluru food safety officials raid five-star hotels and high-end restaurants.",
    "Discover rotten meat, fish, vegetables in hotels and restaurants.",
    "45 kg of rotten chicken/beef, 50 kg duck meat, and other expired food destroyed."
  ],
  "editors_take": "The raids signal a stricter enforcement of food safety norms in Bengaluru's high-end eateries, putting establishments at risk of license termination and damaging their reputations.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "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."
}