Mumbai, Aug. 7 -- The Bombay high court will decide on Monday whether United Spirits Ltd can continue selling certain rum products after the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) prohibited their sale over the use of rum flavouring.

The alcoholic beverage company that makes McDowell's No.1 Rum argued on Friday that adding rum flavouring to rum has been an industry practice for decades and that the food regulator cannot suddenly stop the sale of products that have been sold for years without finding any health risk.

"These products have been manufactured for over five decades.. Suddenly, they come and tell us that you can add orange flavour, you can add lime flavour, but in rum, you cannot add rum flavour because the only ...