2014 (8) TMI 1053

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....The Court : The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has held up a sizeable quantity of sugar confectionery imported by the writ petitioner. 2. Their allegation is that the products and the packages containing them are violative of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 read with the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011. 3. On the Court app....

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.... particularly those relating to misbranding, packaging, labelling, etc., provided in Sections 23 to 26 thereof. He took me through the Label Regulation, being 2.2 particularly, 2.2.2(2). He also placed Regulation 2.7 with regard to the items permitted in sweets and confectionery (2.7.1). 6. He argued on that basis that the label of the goods of the petitioner was defective. It mentioned th....

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.... an element of doubt with regard to the presence of seaweed and the absence of a declaration in the label that the permitted type of seaweed "Agar Agar" is included in the product. 9. Mr. Chowdhury, learned advocate, throughout his argument maintained that the products were imported in packages from Taiwan and Malaysia. They were sold internationally. Only the safe type of seaweed "Agar Ag....