FSSAI bats for nil GST on packaged milk products; launches scheme to verify 1 lakh milk vendors

Food regulator FSSAI will write to the GST council to remove tax on packaged milk products to boost sales as it found quality and hygiene concerns in recent sample testing of milk products that were sold loose in the retail market, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said. At present, milk products attract 5 per cent GST, he added. Releasing an action plan to ensure quality and safety of milk and milk pro…