India Weighs Canada-Style Warnings on Packaged Foods High in Sugar, Salt or Fat
The proposal would phase in red pictorial labels for foods high in sugar, salt or fat to help consumers identify at-risk products.
- On Friday, The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India submitted a proposal to the Supreme Court for red hexagonal front-of-pack labels alerting consumers to products high in added sugar, fat, or salt.
- The affidavit follows a petition filed by the NGO Our Health Society and scathing comments from a Supreme Court Bench led by Justice Pardiwala emphasizing the state's obligation to protect public health.
- Products exceeding thresholds for High Fat, High Sugar, or High Salt would carry warning labels, while single-ingredient foods "inherently rich in fat, sugar or salt, like ghee, edible oil, jaggery, honey" are proposed for exemption.
- Implementation will occur in phases to "facilitate consumer acceptability and provide industry adequate time for reformulation," while advocate Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi plans to file a comprehensive rejoinder in the Supreme Court.
- Phase II would extend warnings to products high in any single nutrient, as the Economic Survey supports these changes and the court noted adopting international standards supports the country's endeavour to be fully developed.
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FSSAI proposes front-of-pack red pictorial warnings for foods high in fat, sugar, salt
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