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Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Monday said that the FSSAI's draft regulation on front-of-the-pack nutritional labelling (FOPNL) will impact small sweet and namkeen manufacturers.
In September, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had issued draft regulations for FOPNL for packaged food companies. It proposes to introduce the concept of five star ratings to provide information about the nutritional value of the products to consumers.
The regulator has sought comments from stakeholders on the regulations.
The CAIT has written a letter to health minister Mansukh Mandaviya, raising concerns about this regulation.
The industry body has sought immediate attention towards a draft notification issued by the FSSAI for the printing of Indian Nutrition Rating (INR) on food packets as part of a labelling exercise with healthy food items getting a higher rating.
"This move undoubtedly looks to be logical which has been brought with a good intention to ensure quality and nutrified food to the people of India. However, the proposed rules have not taken into account the ground reality of the food trade and various parameters of spending of the consumers," CAIT National Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said in the letter.
"The said rules are an attempt to run the food trade with one stick though India is land of great diversity," he added.
Khandelwal noted that crores of small halwai, food operators, sweet & namkeen makers and others cater to the requirement of about 80 per cent population of the country.
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