After an eight-year campaign by Hyderabad paediatrician Dr Sivaranjani Santosh, the FSSAI has banned beverage makers from using the ‘ORS’ label. The decision ensures only WHO-approved medical ORS can carry the name, protecting children from harmful sugary drinks
Parents are being misled into giving commercially available ORS to their children thinking that it is ORS. However, such ready to drink ORS have excessive sugar, more than the WHO recommendations. Such drinks only end-up worsening diarrhea and causing dehydration, says pediatrician Dr Sivaranjini Santosh
