PepsiCo, ITC, Nestle add selective front-of-pack labels as FSSAI rules stall 8 years
Indian packaged food majors are voluntarily disclosing limited ingredient details on front packs while FSSAI's mandatory salt-sugar-fat labelling regulation remains pending after eight years. Health advocates flag the moves as fragmented and non-standardised, leaving consumers without comparable nutritional signals.
What happened
Indian packaged food makers including PepsiCo, ITC, Nestle and iD Fresh are voluntarily adding selective front-of-pack ingredient declarations as FSSAI's
Key facts
- 8 years
Why this matters
The disclosure vacuum favors incumbents with in-house nutrition science while opening M&A and partnership angles around clean-label challengers and labelling-tech enablers ahead of eventual FSSAI enforcement.