Morning Brief Podcast: Health Hazards in your Grocery Bag
Morning Brief Podcast (ET Bureau)
Health Hazards in your Grocery Bag
Ratna Bhushan | 21:48 Min | June 10, 2025, 7:13 AM IST
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"A bottle of mango lassi, neatly sealed and within its expiry date, erupts like a shaken soda—over-fermented and undrinkable. Delivered in 10 minutes from a quick commerce dark store, it should've been safe. But it wasn't. And it isn't an isolated case. As India's quick commerce boom races ahead with 10-minute deliveries, dark stores—those invisible micro-warehouses powering your convenience—are quietly falling short on food safety. From broken packaging and stale bread to near-expiry edible oils and infestations, hygiene violations are slipping through the cracks. With fragmented regulations and overstretched operations, are we walking blind into a public health risk? Host Anirban Chowdhury speaks to ET's Ratna Bhushan and Dr Arun Gupta, convenor, Nutrition Advocacy in Public Interest, about the systemic hygiene failures inside dark stores, the medical risks of spoiled food, and whether consumer convenience is quietly compromising our safety.Tune in
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