HC asks Centre to decide on mandatory sealing of healthcare products
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MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has directed the Centre to treat a petition seeking mandatory sealing of healthcare products and consumer durables as a representation made to it and take appropriate decision expeditiously, preferably within six months.
The direction was issued recently by a division bench headed by Justice Shantanu Kemkar which was hearing a PIL filed by advocate Gitanjali Dutta.
However, the bench made it clear that it was not commenting upon the merits of the petition.
The PIL demanded that cosmetic goods, personal hygiene products, skin and hair-care creams and lotions should be sold only in sealed packets or containers.
Dutta contended that at present such products are often sold without being sealed and it results in contamination or adulteration.
Earlier, the high court had asked the petitioner to conduct a survey of the international norms for sealing of products India exports and give a copy of survey report to the Centre.
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