Shalimar coriander powder recall: current reports directly citing the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India say FSSAI has ordered Nilgiri Oil & Allied Industries to immediately recall Shalimar’s Chef – Coriander Powder from the market after pesticide-residue testing found the sampled product unsafe. A referral-laboratory retest following the company’s appeal reportedly reached the same unsafe conclusion.
The important limitation is scope. The reviewed material identifies the named coriander powder product, but TPS did not recover the product-specific FSSAI recall notice showing an exact batch number, lot, pack size, quantity, retailer list or distribution footprint. That means buyers should not assume that every Shalimar-branded product is affected, and TPS cannot responsibly publish a batch list that the reviewed evidence does not provide.
What FSSAI reportedly found
A regulatory sample of Shalimar’s Chef – Coriander Powder was reported as unsatisfactory for pesticide residues and non-compliant with the applicable food-safety standards. The Food Analyst classified the sample as unsafe under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
Nilgiri Oil & Allied Industries reportedly exercised its right to appeal the first analysis. The second part of the sample was then sent for referral testing. Current reports citing FSSAI say that retest again found the coriander powder unsatisfactory for pesticide residues and again classified it as unsafe. FSSAI subsequently required the implicated food product to be immediately recalled from the market.
How to check a pack you already have
Check whether the pack is labelled Shalimar’s Chef – Coriander Powder and whether Nilgiri Oil & Allied Industries is identified as the relevant food business. Do not extend this recall to unrelated Shalimar products.
Keep the batch or lot number, manufacture or packing date, pack size and FSSAI licence details available. TPS has not recovered an authoritative batch list, so these details may be needed to compare your pack with a later FSSAI, manufacturer or retailer notice.
The product has been reported as subject to an immediate market recall after an unsafe finding. Until the controlling recall scope for your pack is clear, do not rely on an assumption that an unlisted batch is unaffected.
Check current FSSAI/FoSCoS recall information and any manufacturer or retailer communication for return, withdrawal or disposal instructions. TPS did not find evidence supporting a universal refund, replacement or disposal procedure for households.
What is confirmed and what remains unresolved
Reported consistently: FSSAI issued a recall order to Nilgiri Oil & Allied Industries for Shalimar’s Chef – Coriander Powder; pesticide-residue testing failed; a referral-laboratory retest after appeal also failed; and the product was required to be immediately recalled from the market.
Not established in the reviewed evidence: the exact affected batch or lot numbers, total quantity, package sizes, geographic distribution, retailer-specific stock, household refund procedure, disposal instructions or completion status of the recall.
FSSAI’s general recall framework says a food business that has reason to believe its food does not comply with the law must initiate withdrawal procedures from the market and consumers and inform the competent authorities. That framework explains why an immediate recall matters, but it does not supply the missing product-specific identifiers for this case.
Do not confuse this with the Aquagri carrageenan recall
FSSAI was also reported to have ordered a separate immediate recall involving carrageenan from Aquagri Processing Pvt Ltd after a sample failed the applicable cadmium specification and referral testing again returned an unsafe result. That is a different food business, product and non-compliance issue. TPS is treating it as a separate supply-chain signal rather than using its details to infer the scope of the Shalimar coriander powder recall.
Verification note
TPS reviewed FSSAI’s current food-recall framework and cross-checked multiple September 12 reports that directly attribute both the original test result, referral retest and immediate recall action to FSSAI. The product-specific FSSAI recall post or order was not independently recovered, so this article keeps the recall attribution explicit and does not manufacture missing batch or remedy details.
