India, Sept. 24 -- The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has moved to ban the manufacturing and sale of any non-dairy "analogue products as paneer".

The food regulator, in a post on its official social media handle, said it had proposed a ban on "the sale of analogue paneer made from constituents not derived from milk." It further said the move was undertaken to safeguard consumer interests and ban the practice of marketing analogue products as paneer.

Analogue dairy products are non-dairy alternatives in which some or all milk constituents are replaced with ingredients not derived from milk. Analogue paneer, for instance, can be made using vegetable oils, starches, plant proteins, emulsifiers and other additives instead of m...