Food Authorities Issue Notices To Fortune Dairy After Mumbai Man Found Human Finger Inside Ice Cream

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) issued notices to two manufacturing units associated with Yummo ice cream after a Mumbai man found a piece of served finger in his ice cream cone.

These were third-party cream manufacturing units at Mumbai’s Indapur and its premises in Hadapsar at Pune. Samples were collected and raw materials were sent for tests by the officials.

FSSAI issued an improvement notice to the third-party manufacturing unit at Indapur, FDA to send it to the unit at Hadapsar.

Fortune Dairy Industries Pvt Ltd, the third-party manufacturing unit, is yet to receive notices from authorities.

This comes days after a doctor from the Malad area in Mumbai complained that he found a severed piece of flesh with a nail in an ice cream cone that he ordered online.

While it was suspected to be a piece of the human finger, it has been sent for an examination, they said.

“The complainant in the case, a 26-year-old doctor with an MBBS degree who lives in Malad West, had ordered a butterscotch ice-cream cone from Yummo company. While consuming the ice cream after lunch, he came across a half-an-inch-long piece of flesh with a nail in the ice cream,” he said.

The man took up the matter and lodged a complaint with the ice cream company on its Instagram page, he said.

But since there was no appropriate response from the company, the complainant put the piece of flesh in an ice bag and approached the Malad police station, the official said.

Based on his complaint, the police registered a case against Yummo ice cream company officials, he said.

“The piece of flesh, suspected to be a piece of human finger, has been sent for forensic examination to ascertain whether it is a part of the human body,” the official said, adding that a probe in the case is underway.