High sugar, salt or fat? Your packaged food may soon carry a ‘warning symbol’

The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) over its proposed timeline for implementation of front-of-package labelling on packaged foods.Reserving its final order on the proposed labelling framework, a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran asked why does FSSAI want to waste so much time when the matter relates to the health issue of the citizens.Front-of-package labelling (FoPL) is a nutritional information graphic on food packaging that can assist…