When the red hexagon isn’t settled, your inventory is what burns first
With an FOP warning proposal that discloses neither start date nor thresholds, what should printers lock down before they touch the press?
India is considering a “red hexagon” front-of-pack warning mark for food packaging. But right now it is not a final, notified regulation—it is being discussed at the level of a Supreme Court submission. That uncertainty is exactly what amplifies SKU-by-SKU revisions, forced liquidation of old packaging stock, and mislabeling risk.
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The cartons stacked in a port warehouse can become “a different product” starting today—even under the same brand. Miss the switchover by a single day and you get shipping holds and scrappage. India’s proposed red-hexagon FOP (Front-of-Pack) warning label has the kind of conditions where incidents cluster around one thing: the cutover date.…
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