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Food Safety Crackdown Fuels Hiring Boom at PepsiCo, Hilton, and Other Food Businesses
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Moneycontrol•28-09-2026, 08:26
Food Safety Crackdown Fuels Hiring Boom at PepsiCo, Hilton, and Other Food Businesses
- •Major food companies, restaurants, and hotels are increasing hiring for food safety, quality control, audit, and compliance roles due to intensified regulatory inspections.
- •Companies like PepsiCo, Bikanervala, DLF Hospitality, Hilton, and LT Foods have advertised compliance-related positions.
- •The hiring surge is a direct response to increased scrutiny from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and state food safety authorities.
- •Restaurant chains, including Speciality Restaurants and Olive Group, are strengthening internal checks and hiring more trained food safety officers.
- •The regulatory push includes a statewide festival food-safety drive in Maharashtra, leading to license suspensions and cancellations, and proposed changes to front-of-pack nutritional labeling by FSSAI.
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Large packaged-food companies, hotels, and restaurant chains are stepping up hiring for food safety, quality control, audit, and compliance roles as regulators intensify inspections and increase scrutiny across the sector.
Companies such as PepsiCo, Bikanervala, DLF Hospitality, Hilton, and LT Foods have advertised compliance-related positions on LinkedIn over the past fortnight to strengthen their existing quality and compliance teams.
The Maharashtra FDA carried out 3,068 inspections between September 1 and 23 as part of a statewide festival food-safety drive, which resulted in the suspension of 248 licences and the cancellation of 12 licences.
