The State of Maharashtra has challenged central food safety regulations in the Bombay High Court, alleging that the FSSAI has built a parallel enforcement regime that usurps the powers the Food Safety and Standards Act gives to the State.
A notice that did not say how a brand name misleads has drawn an interim rebuke: the Delhi High Court stops FSSAI from taking precipitate action against Emami over the Healthy And Tasty branding of its edible oils, finding prima facie that the notice gave no reasons. New Delhi: Emami has obtained interim protection from […]
Delhi High Court seeks replies on a PIL over non-dairy products sold as paneer, but no interim enforcement drive has been ordered for now. New Delhi: Petitioners who wanted an enforcement drive against non-dairy products sold or served as paneer have, for the moment, received notice instead: the Delhi High Court seeks replies from the […]
“Your existing stock will be sold,” the Delhi High Court told PepsiCo and Monster Beverages, allowing them to sell stock already labelled as energy drink while barring fresh manufacture under that descriptor until the next hearing. New Delhi: Staying coercive action against them in their challenge to directions of the Food Safety and Standards Authority […]
The Madras High Court has refused to recall its microplastics label order, holding that consumers must be told when packaged drinking water, sugar and salt may contain micro or nano plastics. Chennai: The Madras High Court has dismissed a review application filed by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and two recall […]
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 Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition by the master licensee of the VIMAL brand challenging a show cause notice issued by the Maharashtra FDA to three brand ambassadors, holding that neither the location of FSSAI in Delhi nor the petitioner’s own base there could confer territorial jurisdiction. The merits were left untouched.
Pushing the Centre on packaged-food warning labels, the Supreme Court welcomed the FSSAI’s proposed “red hexagon” HIGH FAT / SUGAR / SALT front-of-pack warning but flagged gaps in its phasing, thresholds and timeline, and put 13 pointed questions to the regulator, framing the exercise as part of the right to health under Article 21. New […]
