Pune based ice-cream manufacturer’s license suspended by FSSAI after human finger discovered in ice-cream

The FSSAI Western Region office has temporarily suspended the license of an ice cream manufacturer in Pune after a 26-year-old doctor from Malad West alleged that he found a human finger in an ice cream cone on Wednesday.

“The premises of the ice cream manufacturer have been inspected by a team of FSSAI’s Western Region Office and its license has been temporarily suspended,” said FSSAI in a reply to ANI

However, the report of the forensic lab is still pending.

FSSAI further said that the ice cream manufacturer who delivered the ice cream is based in Indapur, Pune, and has a central license as well.

“The manufacturer is based at Indapur, Pune and has a central license,” FSSAI said.

According to a report by Hindustan Times, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has temporarily suspended the license of the third-party manufacturing unit of Yummo Ice Creams.

For further investigation team FSSAI has collected samples from the premises of the seller.

“The State FDA has also inspected the seller’s premises at Mumbai and samples of the batch have been taken,” the food safety body added.

According to the complainant, his sister visited him, and he ordered three ice creams from Yummo through a grocery app, which arrived at 10:10 pm.

In his Police complaint, he said, that as he took a bite from a cone he felt something unusual in his mouth and when he checked it properly then he got to see finger-like flesh.

Meanwhile, the Malad Police have investigated the incident at manufacturer’s premises. They aim to ascertain the date of manufacture for the ice cream batch, the manufacturing process, and any potential mishaps that may have occurred during production.

The ice cream’s supply chain has been traced from the manufacturing dairy in Indapur to a godown in Hadapsar, then to Sakinaka, Bhiwandi, and finally to a godown in Malad, from where it was delivered to Dr. Ferrao’s residence.

In response to the incident, Yummo, the ice cream brand, has halted production at the third-party facility and isolated the affected product.