Food safety in India: A challenge for the world's most populous country

Home Shows Focus Video content Program Asia / Pacific To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: FOCUS © FRANCE 24 05:49 Issued on: 29/10/2026 - 16:15 From the show India's food industry feeds more than a billion people every day. But ensuring that what reaches consumers is safe has become an increasingly difficult challenge. The country has witnessed a rise in cases of food adulteration, with sometimes fatal consequences. As concerns over adulteration and poor hygiene grow, questions are being raised about whether regulators can effectively oversee such a sprawling sector. Food safety is now a growing public concern in India, exposing the challenges of policing one of the world's largest and most complex food systems. FRANCE 24's Selma Daoui, Nabeel Ahmed, Supriya Kumar and Jeanne Hutin report.