FSSAI faces backlash, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka resist Hindi imposition on curd packets

Tamil Nadu Curd row: A dispute has broken out in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the imposition of the Hindi word in the southern state in response to guidelines and a demand from India's food safety administration to rename curd packets as "Dahi" in Hindi. Earlier, the FSSAI issued a statement ordering Tamil Nadu to switch the English and Tamil names for their curd packets to "Dahi" instead of "Curd."

MK Stalin criticized the national food safety agency

Tamil Nadu minister MK Stalin criticised the national food safety agency after the FSSAI ordered the imposition of "Hindi" on curd and that those in charge will be "banished" from the southern states. In a tweet on Wednesday night, the chief minister expressed his fury at the "unabashed insistences of Hindi imposition," writing, "(Hindi imposition has)… come to the extent of directing us to label even a curd packet in Hindi, relegating Tamil & Kannada in our own states. Such brazen disregard to our mother tongues will make sure those responsible are banished from South forever."

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General Standard for Milk and Milk Products

The FSSAI altered the provisions for the exclusion of the term "curd" from the Standards of Fermented Milk Products via notification dated 11 January 2023 in response to the controversy that developed and the leaders' complaints to the directive aiming to use local names on the product containers. The "General Standard for Milk and Milk Products" under the "Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011" clearly lays out guidelines for using dairy term(s) in the nomenclature of dairy products (milk, milk product, or a composite milk product), as well as related prohibitions for such use in non-dairy products. As a result, the adjective "curd" was added to the word "dahi" in the aforementioned rule, which limited its application to non-dairy goods.

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