FSSAI proposed rolling out the label system in two phases—the first for products high in two or more nutrients and the second for those high in any one nutrient.
A LocalCircles survey showed that a majority of Indian consumers want warning labels to reflect total nutrient levels rather than limiting metrics to added ingredients alone.
FSSAI, as regulator, has the responsibility to safeguard the interests of the common people, protecting them from harmful food but its actual actions have been far from satisfactory.
FSSAI informs the SC the FoP label would be red-coloured hexagon shape & in a font size one-point larger than what is used in the nutrition table on the back of the pack.
The survey’s findings coincide with recent inspections by the FSSAI at two five-star hotels in Delhi’s Aerocity, Andaz Delhi and JW Marriott, both of which are linked to venues for the September 2026 BRICS Summit.
The multinationals are content to profit from India but unwilling to include cigarette-package-style health warnings about high levels of salt, sugar, etc on their products.
The FDA inspected the Bombay Presidency Radio Club under the direction of Food Safety Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe and found it non-compliant on 47% of the parameters assessed.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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