diff --git a/backend/app/logs.py b/backend/app/logs.py
index ce42b3dd..64746cf5 100644
--- a/backend/app/logs.py
+++ b/backend/app/logs.py
@@ -466,7 +466,6 @@ _THIRD_PARTY_LEVELS = {
     "httpx": "WARNING",
     "httpcore": "WARNING",
     "asyncio": "WARNING",
-    "multipart": "WARNING",
     "PIL": "WARNING",
     "alembic": "INFO",
     # uvicorn's own startup/shutdown/WebSocket lines are worth keeping; its ACCESS log is not —
diff --git a/backend/requirements.lock b/backend/requirements.lock
index 737de225..91c17790 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.lock
+++ b/backend/requirements.lock
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ pydantic-settings==2.15.0
 pydantic==2.13.4
 pydantic_core==2.46.4
 python-dotenv==1.2.3
-python-multipart==0.0.32
 requests==2.34.2
 rich==15.0.0
 starlette==1.6.0
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index c562cfff..6622eaf2 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 fastapi>=0.115,<1.0
-# Multipart form parsing — required by Starlette/FastAPI to accept file uploads (UploadFile/Form).
-# The download center's local-file Upload (E7) is the only multipart endpoint in the app.
-python-multipart>=0.0.9,<1.0
 uvicorn[standard]>=0.30,<1.0
 sqlalchemy>=2.0,<2.1
 psycopg[binary]>=3.2,<4.0