The Maharashtra government, through its Food Safety Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, recently approached the Bombay High Court against the Central Health Ministry and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), alleging that the central regulator has unlawfully set up a parallel enforcement system and encroached upon state powers.

The commissioner claimed this “usurped” state body’s powers and prevented it from enforcing the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act, 2006 in food business premises that hold a ‘Central License’.

A bench led by Chief Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi on Friday posted the hearing of the writ petition filed by state government through the State Commissioner of Food Safety, Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to November 26.

The plea claimed that the FSS Act, 2006 was enacted to decentralise food administration.…