Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Companies selling packaged food products in India often claim that they are healthy, natural, pure, sugar-free – but are they actually so?
In 2024, a committee of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India reviewed more than 160 food products that had been flagged for making misleading claims. Two years later, our investigation found a majority of those claims were still in circulation.
In this episode of True Story, Scroll’s Executive Editor Supriya Sharma speaks to Shreegireesh Jalihal who spent months investigating how the Indian government’s efforts to regulate the industry are falling short.
Read Shreegireesh Jalihal's stories here:
scroll.in/topic/56649/junk-food
Host: Supriya Sharma
Producer: Raghav Kakkar
Editor: Hyder Habib
#foodregulation #fssai
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Companies selling packaged food products in India often claim that they are healthy, natural, pure, sugar-free – but are they actually so?
In 2024, a committee of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India reviewed more than 160 food products that had been flagged for making misleading claims. Two years later, our investigation found a majority of those claims were still in circulation.
In this episode of True Story, Scroll’s Executive Editor Supriya Sharma speaks to Shreegireesh Jalihal who spent months investigating how the Indian government’s efforts to regulate the industry are falling short.
Read Shreegireesh Jalihal's stories here:
scroll.in/topic/56649/junk-food
Host: Supriya Sharma
Producer: Raghav Kakkar
Editor: Hyder Habib
#foodregulation #fssai
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