India, June 27 -- The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized 12 counterfeit bottles of Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser from a retailer in Pune's Shivajinagar after an inspection found them to be "spurious cosmetics", despite the products carrying an expiry date of December 2028.

The seizure was made on June 22, and a case was registered the same day, HT earlier reported.

According to the FDA, drug inspector Shrikant V Patil from the Pune division carried out a surprise inspection at Om Chemist, where he collected a sample of the 118 ml cleanser bearing batch number B5NA1110.

The product was labelled as having been manufactured in December 2025 with an expiry date of December 2028, the report added.

The cleanser is mar...