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Date: 22-Aug-2023 Category: Extra Ordinary State: Union Government Country: India

PROHIBITION OF GUTKHA

Issued by Government of The National Capital Territory of Delhi · Department of Food Safety

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Executive Summary & Key Takeaways

What it means

  • The gazette notification prohibits the manufacture, storage, distribution, and sale of tobacco, whether flavored, scented, or mixed with additives, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi for a period of one year from the date of publication of the notification.

Key Changes

  • Prohibition of manufacture, storage, distribution, and sale of tobacco products including Gutkha, Pan Masala, Flavoured/Scented Tobacco, and Kharra.
  • The prohibition extends to tobacco products mixed with additives like heavy metals, silver leaf, binders, flavors, scents, fragrances, and prohibited chemicals.
  • The ban is effective for one year from the date of publication of the notification in the official gazette.
  • The prohibition applies whether the products are packaged or unpackaged and/or sold as one product, or through packaged as separate products, sold or distributed in such a manner so as to easily facilitate mixing by the consumer.
  • The order is issued under Section 30(2)(a) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.

Impact Analysis

Government

  • Increased enforcement efforts to ensure compliance with the ban.

Manufacturers and Distributors

  • Action Item: Assess the financial impact of the ban and develop strategies to mitigate losses. Explore diversification options.

Retailers and Vendors

  • Action Item: Identify alternative products to offer customers. Ensure compliance with the ban to avoid penalties.

Consumers

  • Action Item: Promote awareness of the health risks associated with tobacco consumption. Provide support for those seeking to quit.

Key Entities Referenced

Commissioner (Food Safety), National Capital Territory of Delhi: The authority responsible for issuing the prohibition order under Section 30 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. Current Commissioner is Neha Bansal, IAS. Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006: The legal framework under which the prohibition order is issued. Section 30 grants the Commissioner (Food Safety) the power to prohibit the manufacture, storage, distribution, or sale of any article of food in the interest of public health. Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011: Regulations under which the Central Government has prohibited products containing tobacco and nicotine. Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011: Regulations under which the Central Government has prohibited products containing tobacco and nicotine. Gutkha, Pan Masala, Flavoured/Scented Tobacco, Kharra: Specific tobacco products that are explicitly prohibited under this notification.
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रिज(cid:7021)(cid:7069)ी स.ं डी.एल.- 33002/99 REGD. No. D. L.-33002/99 भारत सरकार GOVERNMENT OF INDIA एस.जी.-डी.एल.-अ.-23082023-248248 xxxGIDHxxx SG-DL-E-23082023-248248 xxxGIDExxx असाधारण EXTRAORDINARY (cid:7079)ािधकार से (cid:7079)कािशत PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY स.ं 258] (cid:7408)द(cid:7016)ली, मगं लवार, अग(cid:7021)त 22, 2023/(cid:7088)ावण 31, 1945 [रा.रा.रा.(cid:6979)े.(cid:7408)द. सं. 194 No. 258] DELHI, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2023/SHRAVANA 31, 1945 [N. C. T. D. 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No. F.211(17)/DOFS/HQ/2017/3021-40.—WHEREAS, Gutkha, Pan Masala Flavoured / Scented Tobacco, Kharra and similar products containing tobacco by whatsoever name called, cause damage to the health of consumers and their adverse impact could also lead to alterations of the genetic make-up of future generations; WHEREAS, tobacco, whether flavoured, scented or mixed with other ingredients such as heavy metals, silver leaf, binders, flavours, scents, fragrances, prohibited chemicals, or any one of these ingredients (the said ingredients are hereafter collectively or individually, as the context requires, referred to as “the said additives”) are “food” under clause (j) of section 3 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006; WHEREAS, the Central Government has prohibited products containing tobacco and nicotine under regulation 2.3.4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011; WHEREAS, the said food articles if consumed will endanger human health and well-being and whereas if consumption of these food articles is allowed without prohibition the well being of current and future generations will be compromised; WHEREAS, under the law and in the interest of public health, Commissioner Food Safety is responsible for prohibiting in the interest of public health the manufacture, storage, distribution or sale of any article of food, and whereas the undersigned is duly authorized under section 30(2)(a) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, to make this order ; Therefore, in exercise of these powers conferred by clause (a) of sub section (2) of section 30 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, the undersigned, Commissioner (Food Safety), National Capital Territory of Delhi, prohibit in the interest of public health for a period of one year from the date of publication of this Notification in the official gazette, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi the manufacture, storage, distribution, or sale of tobacco which is either flavoured, scented or mixed with any of the said additives, and whether going by the name or form of Gutkha, Pan Masala Flavoured/ Scented Tobacco, Kharra, or otherwise by whatsoever name called, whether packaged or unpackaged and/or sold as one product, or through packaged as separate products, sold or distributed in such a manner so as to easily facilitate mixing by the consumer. NEHA BANSAL, IAS, Commissioner (Food Safety) Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

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