Ban Fast Food Advertisements and Hike Taxes on Them: FSSAI

Your love and hate relationship with junk food may now get a new twist. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has recommended additional tax on processed food and sugar-sweetened beverages, and also called for a blanket ban on advertising of junk foods and beverages on children’s channels and content for children across television, websites and social media. While we are all aware about the ill-effects of junk food for our health, yet it doesn’t stop us from getting those food products to our homes and indulging, even if…

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