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However, most of these sweets, which are passed off as “imported”, do not adhere to proper labelling as specified by the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act and Rules framed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The Act makes it mandatory that the name, trade name and ingredients used, batch number, month and year of manufacture and packaging, as well as the best before period from the date of manufacture.
The ubiquitous “foreign” chocolates are potential health hazards as they fail to abide by the criteria. Compounding the problem are the labels in foreign languages, which the average Indian consumer cannot decipher.
Consumer Utility and Trust Services (CUTS), a consumer forum, has also warned against such chocolates. “They are certainly not ‘imported’. These are merely spurious products,” said N K Sinha of CUTS.
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