HC denies JNTL nod to sell unsold ORSL batch
New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to allow Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary, JNTL Consumer Health, to sell over Rs.100 crore worth of unsold ORSL electrolyte drink currently in the market, following up on food regulator FSSAI's ban on the sale of the beverage.
Last month, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued orders restraining companies from using the term ORS (oral rehydration salt), as prefix suffix in the name, label, advertisement or trademark of any food or beverage product, concluding that such a practice was misleading and contravened the provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed that permitt...
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