-PTI
The Central Information Commission has criticised the Union health ministry for its ambivalent replies to an RTI applicant who wanted to know what the government had done about declaring the level of trans-fats in food products.
“If the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India has taken no steps on specifying safety level trans-fats percentages in ghee and edible oil, they should at least admit this,” information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi said in the order. “Harassment of a common man by public authorities is socially abhorring and legally impermissible,” he said.