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Issues: (i) Whether the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India was justified in permitting the use of ethephon as a source of ethylene gas for artificial ripening of fruits. (ii) Whether the Government of Telangana was justified in issuing directions to encourage use of En-Ripe as an alternative source of ethylene gas.
Issue (i): Whether the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India was justified in permitting the use of ethephon as a source of ethylene gas for artificial ripening of fruits.
Analysis: The regulatory framework was examined in the context of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and the related regulations governing insecticides and food safety. The use permitted by the authority was not spraying of ethephon directly on food but its use in sachets to generate ethylene gas, with the sachets kept away from direct contact with fruits. The Court found no conflict between the challenged direction and the statutory provisions, and held that the authority acted within its power to issue directions on food safety matters.
Conclusion: The challenge to the FSSAI order and guideline failed, and the permission for use of ethephon for artificial ripening was upheld.
Issue (ii): Whether the Government of Telangana was justified in issuing directions to encourage use of En-Ripe as an alternative source of ethylene gas.
Analysis: The impugned government order was read as a policy instruction to encourage a safe alternative source of ethylene gas and not as a mandatory restriction on the use of ethephon. Since the order did not prohibit the petitioner from selling or using ethephon and merely promoted an alternative product considered safe by the relevant scientific panel, no ground for interference was found.
Conclusion: The challenge to the Telangana Government order failed.
Final Conclusion: The connected writ petitions were liable to be dismissed, as no legal infirmity was found in the FSSAI direction or in the State's promotional instructions regarding a safe ethylene source.
Ratio Decidendi: A regulatory authority may permit a controlled use of a substance as a source of ethylene gas for artificial ripening where the substance is not applied directly to food and the statutory scheme is not violated; a non-mandatory policy direction to encourage a safer alternative does not warrant judicial interference.
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