Vendor who mislabelled mushrooms at Hyperpure warehouse delisted: Zomato CEO

Goyal on Hyperpure:  Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal on Monday said company has delisted vendor responsible for putting "incorrect packaging date" on mushroom packets that were found during an FSSAI inspection at Hyperpure warehouse in Hyderabad.

During inspection, a Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) team had reportedly found future-dated mushrooms at warehouse concerned. Goyal clarified that incorrect packaging date on 90 button mushroom packets was due to a "manual typing error on vendor's side".

"Hello all - just want to clarify that fssai team ted that 90 packets of button mushrooms had incorrect packaging date - se were already identified by our warehouse team and were rejected during an inward QC. This is t usual, and was due to a manual typing error on vendor's side. Still, concerned vendor has been delisted from our database. At Hyperpure, we have stringent inward guidelines and tech systems that helped our teams to identify this error in time," Goyal said in a post on X.

Zomato Hyperpure is a business-to-business (B2B) platform that supplies restaurants, hotels, and caterers with a wide range of kitchen essentials, including fresh produce, meats, seafood, poultry, gourmet foods, consumables, and kitchen equipment.

Defending Hyperpure's food safety standards, Goyal said Hyperpure warehouse where inspection was carried out has achieved an A+ rating.

"I am t sure why just se small number of mushroom packets worth Rs 7,200 (out of crores of inventory in warehouse), which were never going to make it to customers, are being talked about media, while we got an A+ rating. Maybe some people benefit from virality which y get at expense of pulling down Zomato brand. And maybe we all love to believe narrative that 'all big business is bad business'," Goyal wrote in post .