New Delhi, July 10 -- Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that companies and e-commerce firms need to display the country of origin of products, in compliance with Packaged Commodities Rules, 2011, failing which they will face penal action.
While addressing media persons on Thursday, Paswan asserted that ''the consumer affairs ministry has instructed the manufacturers to declare details such as the country of origin of the product, manufacturing details along with expiry of the products.''
''The ministry is constituting a team under an assistant secretary-level officer to monitor any such violation, he added.
Packaged Commodities Rules, 2011 make it mandatory for all manufacturers to declare the package name a...