Overview
- The bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta dismissed the plea on Thursday after finding no ground to entertain it under Article 32.
- The petition asked for a court-supervised national task force and a time-bound nationwide audit of factories, restaurants, and other food businesses.
- It also sought more inspection staff and lab capacity across states and a national system to file complaints and pay victims of food-safety violations.
- The Court said the plea relied on newspaper reports rather than credible data and stressed that FSSAI is the statutory regulator under the 2006 law.
- The ruling leaves food-safety enforcement with the government and regulators and signals that sweeping orders will require strong, empirical evidence.