By Ankush Chibber, 14-Feb-2012
India’s food safety and standards agency has been penalized by the chief information commission for failing to admit that the country does not have safety standards for trans fats in ghee and edible oil.
The FSSAI has been penalized for not setting safe trans fat levels in ghee and edible oil
The sanction came after right to information activist, KS Swami, enquired whether the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has prescribed any safe percentage of trans fats in ghee and edible oil.
It was reported that the FSSAI did not give an accurate response in this regard.
Swami then took his case to Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India, which in a decision last week said that the FSSAI was deliberately avoiding admission of no safety standard for trans fats.
“If the authority has taken no steps about specifying the safe level of trans fats percentages in ghee and edible oils they should at least admit this,” CIC Shailesh Gandhi said in his order
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