New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- The Supreme Court has asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to specify a reasonable and fixed timeline for implementing its proposed front-of-pack warning label (FoPL) regime for packaged foods high in sugar, salt and fat, and to respond whether the regime should be made mandatory from the get-go.

A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran has also sought the basis for FSSAI's proposal to introduce the warning labels in two phases, as proposed by the food safety regulator in its earlier response.

has come up with a two-phased FoPL regime, initially for products high in two or more specified nutrients and later for products high in any one such nutrient. The Court has directed FS...