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SC adjourns hearing on pepsi, coke by 6 weeks
New
Delhi,
Mar
26:
Counsel
appearing
for
Pepsi
and
Coke
today
contended
before
the
Supreme
Court
that
all
prayers
made
in
Public
Interest
Litigation
(PIL)
seeking
ban
on
manufacture,
sale
and
consumption
of
soft
drinks
on
the
grounds
that
they
are
harmful
for
health
because
of
use
of
pesticide
and
chemicals,
have
already
been
complied
with.
Senior
counsel
K
K
Venugopal
and
Harish
Salve
told
a
bench
comprising
Justices
A
K
Mathur
and
Dalveer
Bhandari
that
in
order
to
check
the
quantity
of
pesticides
and
chemicals,
the
Food
Safety
Act
has
been
enacted
by
the
government
and
regulatory
regime
is
in
place.
The
Prevention
of
Food
Adulteration
Act
is
already
there
to
check
the
contamination
of
the
soft
drinks.
The
counsel
also
informed
the
court
that
the
question
of
displaying
on
the
bottle,
the
ingredients
as
well
as
their
percentage
in
the
soft
drink,
is
a
provision
to
be
taken
care
of.
The
two
soft
drink
majors
however,
resisted
the
contention
that
it
should
be
written
on
the
bottle
that
''soft
drink
is
injurious
to
health" as
is
displayed
on
the
packets
of
cigarettes.
The
court
granted
six
weeks'
time
to
the
petitioner
to
respond
to
the
national
level
committee
report
and
also
directed
the
respondents
to
file
their
response,
if
any
within
the
same
time.
The
court
adjourned
the
hearing
for
six
weeks.
UNI
