FSSAI pulls up two popular food products over safety, compliance lapses

NEW DELHI: In a fresh crackdown on food safety violations, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has acted against two food products, penalising the manufacturer of a fortified sunflower oil after it was found to be substandard and stopping the sale of a Monk Fruit Sweetener over alleged licensing and labelling violations.

The regulator imposed a penalty on AWL Agri Business Ltd , Mangaluru, after a laboratory analysis of a retail sample of Fortune "Fryola" Refined Sunflower Seed Oil found that its vitamin D content was below the prescribed standard, making the fortified edible oil substandard under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.