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India’s Food Safety Crisis: Can You Trust What You Eat? | Ep 3: One Big Bite

India’s food economy is booming, but gaps in inspections, labs and enforcement raise questions about food safety.

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India’s food economy is rapidly expanding across restaurants, delivery platforms, packaged foods and quick commerce. But the real question remains: are food-safety systems keeping pace? In this episode of One Big Bite, we examine what India’s food-safety numbers reveal, the gaps in inspections, laboratories and enforcement, and how stronger traceability and compliance systems could make food safety a more effective public-health priority.