HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.32510 OF 2010 ORDER: The petitioner intended to establish a Unit for manufacture of Flavoured Water and Sweetened Flavoured Water at Guntur. For that purpose, he obtained trade licence from the Municipal Corporation of Guntur, got the registration from the Commercial Tax Department and the Controller of Legal Metrology, Hyderabad. The petitioner approached the Bureau of Indian Standards (for short ‘BIS’) to get the product certified. Through their letter, dated 15-01-2009, the BIS informed the petitioner that there is no Indian Standard available for the Flavoured Water. The petitioner approached the Food safety & Standards Authority of India, 4th respondent, with a request to register or give clearance for the product proposed by the petitioner. Through their letter, dated 21-01-2009, the authority informed the petitioner that he can make a request, for laying down the standards for Flavoured Water and Sweetened Flavoured Water before the Scientific Panels of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, as and when they are constituted. The grievance of the petitioner is that he authorities of the Municipal Corporation are preventing him from conducting business. 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the Municipal Corporation. 3. The petitioner intended to manufacture an item for consumption by human beings. In case, such a product has existed and was certified by the BIS, a certificate from that would enable him to proceed with the manufacture. On the other hand, if it is a new product altogether, he has to submit the details of manufacture together with the ingredients that are proposed to be used. Since the proposed product is for human consumption, the authority has to examine the basic contents of the product and its impact upon the health of the human beings, if any. That would be possible, if only an authority constituted for this purpose examines it. The reply given to the petitioner by the Food Safety & Standards Authority is that the request be posted before the Scientific Panels of Food Safety & Standards Authority of India, as and when they are constituted. The 4th respondent, at the National Level, cannot function without the panels for analysis of Food Safety and Standards. 4. Hence, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the 4th respondent to constitute the Scientific Panel of Food Safety & Standards, within a period of one month, if not already constituted, and place the application submitted by the petitioner before it. The nature of further course of action appears to be taken by the respondents would depend upon the type of reaction that emanates from the 4th respondent. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J January 24, 2011. KTL HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.32510 OF 2010 WRIT PETITION No.32510 OF 2010 January 24, 2011. KTL