IMPHAL, Mar 14 : Following the decision of the State Cabinet to ban smokeless tobacco and consequent upon the notification issued by the Health Secretariat and office memo of the Director of Health Services, the Chief Medical Officer/Designated Officer, Food Safety of Imphal East has issued a notification banning the manufacture, storage, transportation, distribution, display, sale and purchase of gutkha, khaini, zarda, pan masala and other chewable, smokeless tobacco products with immediate effect.
Offenders are liable to be prosecuted under the provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, said the notice.
Earlier on February 2, the State Government had also issued a notification banning the transportation and sale of certain edibles brought in from Myanmar on the ground that these items violate provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
The banned items include Mikko Nutritious Cereal (High Calcium)-25 g, Mikko (3 in 1 instant coffemix), Snacks (bakery items) and milk and milk produce and pickles/achar items (fruits and fishes) etc.
Section 25 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 stipulates that no person shall import into India, any unsafe or misbranded or sub-standard food or food containing extraneous matter etc.
The Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulation, 2001 also stipulates that
every package of food shall carry the information
on the label, namely the name of food including the trade name or description of food contained in the package, the list of ingredients, names of ingredients used in the product in descending order of their composition by weight or volume at the time of manufacture, etc.
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