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UP bans analogue forms of milk products
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Wednesday, 19 August, 2026, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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Uttar Pradesh State Govt has imposed a ban on analogue forms of milk products across the state. The Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA), Uttar Pradesh, led by Commissioner Dr. Roshan Jacob, has issued a comprehensive order mandating immediate, statewide enforcement against adulterated milk and dairy products.
As per the order of the UPFSDA, milk and milk products can only be manufactured and sold in their original/natural form. Any deviation from their original or native characteristics is prohibited.
The directive follows recent inspection and enforcement drives across multiple districts that revealed a widespread presence of hazardous adulterants in milk, paneer, khoya, ghee, chenna, and cream.
Analysis showed that manufacturing units were using cheap, toxic materials and chemicals, including refined oil, foreign fats, soybean products, talcum powder, detergent, titanium dioxide, liquid glucose, hydrogen peroxide, optical brighteners, surfactants, bleaching agents, and emulsifiers, to artificially manipulate quality parameters like BR and RM values.
Exercising powers under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, the Commissioner has ordered immediate actions with respect to ‘seizure and destruction’ wherein any dairy or dairy-processing unit found with foreign fats, hazardous chemicals, or adulterants will face immediate seizure and destruction of all dairy stock.
Subsequently, the unit will face ‘immediate shutdown’ under the emergency prohibition orders under Section 34 of the FSS Act, 2006.
This will be followed up with ‘criminal prosecution’ with FIRs under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against operators systematically using harmful chemicals.
And such a ‘brand’ will face a total ‘statewide sales ban & license suspension’ across Uttar Pradesh, and their food business licenses/registrations will be suspended with immediate effect.
Further, a statewide ban will also apply to out-of-state dairy products found to contain harmful chemicals or foreign fats.
With this move, UP joins Maharashtra, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh in imposing a complete ban on manufacturing, storage, distribution and sale of un standardised analogue dairy products.
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