After reports of stores and e-commerce platforms still stocking and selling fruit beverages, ready-to-serve drinks, and electrolyte drinks with brand names containing the word ORS, FSSAI has urged state authorities — and its field officers — to carry out enforcement drives and ensure all such products are immediately removed and action taken against the store.

Last month, the FSSAI had banned the use of the term ‘ORS’ in brand names of any product that does not follow the WHO-recommended formulation. Pharma giant Johnson and Johnson’s subsidiary JNTL Consumer Health moved Delhi HC, seeking permission for selling existing stocks, which the court denied. The officers have been asked to submit an action taken report containing details of inspections, violations, and corrective actions. It

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