How safe is the knife that slices your bread? Hyderabad activist’s four-year battle leads to FSSAI order on rusted food cutting equipment
Following a four-year campaign by activist Anirudh Gupta, the FSSAI has mandated that food businesses must use food-grade, corrosion-resistant equipment. The order aims to prevent food contamination caused by rusted or inferior-quality cutting tools.
Why it matters
This regulatory change improves public health standards by addressing a common but overlooked source of chemical and microbiological contamination in the food industry.
Every day, lakhs of Indians eat bread without giving a second thought to the knife that slices it or the pan in which it is baked. For Hyderabad-based food safety activist Anirudh Gupta, those unseen tools became the focus for a four-year battle that has now resulted in the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) ordering food businesses to discard rusted cutting equipment.
The article provides a straightforward report on a public health regulatory update and the activist efforts behind it.
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