India’s food regulator has filed three adjudication cases against Nestle India over its infant-nutrition products. The FSSAI flagged promotional claims on NAN Excella Pro Stage 1 (relating to ‘5HMOs’ and ‘Whey Protein’) and Lactogen Pro 1 (describing whey protein as easy to digest), and found a follow-up formula sample non-conforming on biotin content after re-analysis. These are adjudication proceedings; no penalty has been imposed and Nestle is yet to be heard.
The Central Consumer Protection Authority has imposed the maximum first-contravention penalty of Rs 10 lakh on the e-commerce platform Xboom for listing and advertising anti-drone systems, drone jammers and GPS jammers, restricted equipment whose possession and use require government licences, without disclosing the licensing regime or the penal consequences of unauthorised use. The Authority held that concealing this attracted the misleading-advertisement and unfair-trade-practice provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, and rejected the platform’s ‘enquiry-based model’ defence.
