Dehradun, Oct. 14 -- Uttarakhand Food Safety and Drug Administration on Tuesday prohibited the manufacture, storage, distribution and sale of gutkha, pan masala and other food products containing tobacco and nicotine across the state for one year, citing public health concerns. The order was issued by Vinaya Shankar Pandey, commissioner, Food Safety and Drug Administration, Uttarakhand, under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulations, 2011. The order cited Regulation 2.3.4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction of Sales) Regulations, 2011, which prohibits the use of tobacco and nicotine as ingredients in food products, and Section 30(2)(a) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, which empowers the state food safety commissioner to prohibit the manufacture, storage, distribution or sale of food articles for up to one year in the interest of public health. Invoking Section 30(2) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, the commissioner said the state food safety commissioner could, in the interest of pu- blic health, prohibit the manufacture, storage, distribution or sale of any food article in the state for a period of one year....