Remove drinks branded as ORS from shop shelves, e-comm platforms, FSSAI tells states

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, the country’s apex food regulator has urged state authorities — and their field officers — to remove them.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has also asked states to initiate appropriate action against the offender stores immediately.

This direction follows an order by the FSSAI last month banning the use of the term ‘ORS’ in the brand name of any product that does not follow the appropriate formulation recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Pharma multinational Johnson and Johnson’s subsidiary JNTL Consumer Health moved the Delhi High Court asking that it be allowed to sel