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The CBI on Monday arrested an assistant director of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) posted at Mumbai along with the director of a private testing lab and two others in a bribery case of Rs 1.20 lakh, officials said. The agency arrested Amol Jagtap, Assistant Director, FSSAI, Regional Office, Mumbai; Vikas Bhardwaj, Director of Reliable Analytical Laboratories Pvt. Ltd; Harshal Chougule, senior manager of the company; and a company representative in the case, they said.
We advise all our client Certification Bodies to exercise the utmost caution and, whenever possible, refrain from any collaboration with them until the issue is resolved. Please refer to the attached notification related to the suspension of Reliable Analytical Laboratories and the link below to the Economic Times news article.