India’s food-safety regulator said in August that it had abandoned a push for colorful warnings on the front of food packaging. It said such warning labels don’t account for how Indian cuisine has more intense flavors than Western food and instead proposed that companies display a black-and-white table of sugar, fat and salt content.
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August 25, 2026India’s food-safety regulator said in August that it had abandoned a push for colorful warnings on the front of food packaging. It said such warning labels don’t account for how Indian cuisine has more intense flavors than Western food and instead proposed that companies display a black-and-white table of sugar, fat and salt content.