Overview
- Delhi High Court, which issued its order Tuesday, quashed Note (c) to Regulation 2.5.2 and set aside FSSAI directives dated December 10, 2019, January 27, 2020, and January 1, 2021.
- Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia held that the Food Safety and Standards Act regulates food for human consumption, so it does not allow FSSAI to police animal or cattle feed.
- The bench said commercial feed cannot be forced to meet Bureau of Indian Standards norms unless the central government makes those standards mandatory under the BIS Act, 2016.
- Godrej Agrovet, a major animal-feed manufacturer, brought the petition and argued that FSSAI exceeded the powers granted by the 2006 law.
- The note that was struck down had barred feeding milk or meat-producing animals with meat or bone meal, including organs and blood meal from bovine or porcine sources, which FSSAI can no longer enforce.