Water, salt and sugar packs must contain warning on presence of micro or nano plastics: Madras High Court

Key Highlights

• A special Division Bench of Justices N.
• Sathish Kumar and D.
• Bharatha Chakravarthy, constituted to hear forest and environment related issues, ordered that the labels on the PET bottles as well as the sugar and salt packets must contain the warning ‘This water may contain micro/nano plastics’ or ‘This salt/sugar may contain micro/nano plastics’ in red colour font of size 10.
• The Ministry, as well as FSSAI, were directed to issue an appropriate notification, in compliance of the court order, within four weeks and issue instructions to all companies that sell drinking water, salt and sugar in PET bottles and other plastic packaging to comply with the new labelling requirements scrupulously.
• The court also called for a status report from the FSSAI by April 10, 2026.