New Delhi, July 6 -- The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has tightened food safety requirements across the state's milk supply chain, introducing stricter compliance and surveillance measures after inspections identified repeated cases of milk adulteration, synthetic milk production, antibiotic residues, hygiene failures and cold-chain violations.

The new framework takes a supply-chain-wide approach, extending regulatory scrutiny from milk procurement and collection through processing, transportation and final sale.

The development represents a significant escalation in Maharashtra's campaign against milk adulteration. It could have wider implications for dairy businesses operating in one of India's largest milk-producing and c...