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Cuts writes to FSSAI expressing concern for consumers over FOPL
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Friday, 02 December, 2022, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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Consumer rights organisation Cuts International has written to FSSAI and also submitted representation to the Chairperson, Parliamentary Committee on Health and Family Welfare, highlighting key areas of concern in the draft Food Safety and Standards (Labelling & Display) Amendment Regulations, 2022, related to front-of-pack-labelling (FOPL) that had been uploaded by the Authority seeking public comments.
The draft in the current format, if finalised, will lay down the rules for rating food products based on nutrition content on the front of pack throughout India, and could have vast potential to confuse consumers if not thoroughly revised, claimed George Cheriyan, director, Cuts International.
Elaborating further, he stressed, "This is a disastrous one-sided move to appease food industries ignoring the concerns raised by health experts and consumer organisations. In the present format it is just a confusing piece of draft regulation, and our priority at this stage is to take the opportunity to halt the process of taking this draft forward, and highlight to the government and the FSSAI the impact that the regulation would have on consumers if left unchanged."
Cuts is also one of the active consumer organisations in the FSSAI stakeholder consultation on FOPL. It is pitching for adopting a simplistic 'high in' style warning labels for front-of-pack-labelling.
The organisation also demanded that instead of voluntary, these regulations should be mandatory while some concession can be given to small traders.
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