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Assam: Ban on Tobacco Products Extended for Another Year

STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI: The State Health and Family Welfare Department has extended the prohibition order against the manufacture, storage, transportation, display, distribution or sale of gutka, pan masala or any chewing materials etc. containing tobacco or nicotine as ingredients for a period of one year. The order has been extended under Regulation 2.3.4. of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011 read with Section 26 of the Food Safety and Standards Acts, 2006. After the long-standing demand from Consumers Legal Protection Forum (CLPF), Assam, for the first time, Commissioner of Food Safety, Assam issued a Notification Vide No.FSC.12/2013/979 dated Guwahati the 22nd November,2019 and imposed prohibition on the manufacture, storage, transportation, display , distribution or sale of Gutka, Pan Masala or any chewing materials etc. containing tobacco and/or nicotine.

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