Islamabad : The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is actively assessing import risks following an Indian authority raid in Mumbai that uncovered an illegal operation relabelling expired or near-expiry snacks with forged expiration dates and nutritional information.
According to Kashmir Media Service, in August 2026, specifically between August 24 and August 29, Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officers raided Sadhana Enterprises warehouse in Navi Mumbai’s Turbhe area and exposed a brazen export fraud.
Nearly 5,000 cartons of branded snacks and drinks, including Lay’s, Kurkure, Maggi, Knorr, Hellmann’s, Thums Up and Limca, worth Rs 75.21 lakh (almost $80,000) were seized.
Original expiry dates had been chemically erased and replaced; some packs even carried a fabricated manufacturing date of 2 October 2026.
Fake bilingual English-French nutrition labels and “Product of India” stickers were pasted over genuine packaging so the near-expired stock could be shipped abroad by 19 obscure exporters.
This is not an isolated slip. It is systematic deception designed to dump unsafe, mislabeled Indian food onto foreign shelves.
Canada’s Food Inspection Agency is now assessing the risk precisely because one Kurkure pack bore Canadian-style bilingual labels but the Indian intent is clear: profit by fraud.
Meanwhile India has repeatedly tried to monopolise Pakistan’s basmati rice.
Himalayan pink salt, mined in Pakistan’s Khewra, has likewise been quietly rebranded in India previously.
Canada face real public-health and consumer-trust dangers from Indian food exports when expiry dates, nutrition facts and origins can be rewritten in a Mumbai warehouse.
