The Food and Drugs Administration, Maharashtra on July 18, 2023, issued a notification that prohibits, for a period of one year from July 20, 2023, the manufacture, storage, distribution, transport (in and through Maharashtra State) or sale of tobacco and areca nut (betel nut) which is either flavoured, scented or mixed with any of the said additives, and whether going by the name or form of gutkha, pan masala, flavoured/scented tobacco, flavoured/scented supari, Manufactured chewing tobacco with additives, kharra, or otherwise by whatsoever name called, whether packaged or unpackaged and/or sold as one product, or though packaged as separate products, sold distributed in such a manner so as to easily facilitate mixing by the consumer, for its consumption in the whole State of Maharashtra.
[Notification No. FSSA/Notification /496-2023/7]
