The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cancelled 29 licences and suspended 71 others after conducting 937 inspections across the state between October 5 and 17. The inspections uncovered deficiencies among drug manufacturers, blood centres, laboratories and medicine sellers.

The crackdown also resulted in five enforcement actions against the unlicensed sale of drugs and manufacture of cosmetics, with goods worth Rs 28.52 lakh seized.