The Food & Drug regulator has cited serious irregularities involving the packaging, storage, documentation and recall procedures for Reactin Plus tablets.
In a recent special drive, FDA inspected 89 hotels, restaurants and dhabas across the state and issued improvement notices to 71 establishments and suspended licences of 13 food establishments.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad said the Food and Drug Administration's order suspending licenses of eateries and hotels was a strange policy and perverse.
The FDA carried out a statewide inspection drive raiding 86 establishments selling and delivering food through online platforms across Maharashtra on August 13.