Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has constituted a three-member committee to look into draft food labeling and display regulations-Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations 2018.
The committee will be headed by B Sesikeran, former director of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN)and comprises of current NIN director Hemalatha and AIIMS’ endocrinologist Nikhil Tandon.
FSSAI had released draft Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations 2018 in April 2018.
It had proposed mandatory red-label marking on such packaged food products which are high in fat, sugar and salt contents.
But, Union Health Ministry had put on hold on the draft regulations, and formed the committee of experts to look into t draft regulations.