FDA officials who visited the site described conditions that were severely unhygienic, with food items found stored on rusted racks or simply left on the floor instead of being stacked properly. This is not the first time a Blinkit facility has run into trouble with the state’s food safety regulator. In late July, the FDA suspended the licence of another Blinkit warehouse, this one in Pune. Food items in that case too were found stored directly on the floor. The FDA had described those findings as pointing to gross non-compliance with food licence conditions and a clear risk to public health.