FSSAI proposes pictorial warning on liquor bottles

As drunk driving results in thousands of deaths every year, the food regulator is toying with the idea of introducing pictorial warning on liquor bottles to make people aware of the consequences.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has received a set of four pictorial warnings from an NGO, Community Against Drunken Driving, which had petitioned the Delhi High Court seeking the judiciary’s intervention to make the warnings mandatory.

In May, the high court ruled that the issue was in the “realm of policy making and beyond the jurisdiction of the court.”

But it asked the FSSAI to consider the two petitions as “suggestions” to review the entire gamut of issues on the introduction of pictorial warning on liquor bottles.