DIMAPUR — The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed all food business operators (FBOs) to immediately stop using metallic pins, staple pins and wires for packaging or fastening food items and parcels.

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In an advisory, the regulator warned that such materials are commonly used to secure cake boxes, sweet boxes, snack packets and takeaway parcels, posing a risk of injury to consumers. It instructed all FBOs to adopt safer alternatives and warned that failure to comply with the directive would invite penal action.

"All FBOs are hereby directed to immediately discontinue the use of metallic pins/wires or any other such material for sealing, fastening, securing, or packaging any food item, food parcel, takeaway meal, bakery product, cake box, sweet box, snack packet, or any other food item or package," the advisory read.