Raigam Marketing Services (Pvt) Ltd Vs Dr. Anil Jasinghe. Chief Food Authority. (Director General of Health Services) – CA WRT/0073/2019-2022

In the case between Raigam Marketing Services (Pvt) Ltd. and others (including representatives from the health sector) as Petitioners and the Chairman and Committee of the Food Labelling and Advertising Sub Committee under the Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medicine as Respondents, the court addressed the issue of whether the trade name “දෙවැනි බැත” used for a rice noodle product was misleading to the public and whether regulatory requirements under the Food (Labelling and Advertising) Regulation 2005 were satisfied. The court held that the use of the said trade name was likely to mislead consumers and found no merit in the Petitioners’ claim that changing the trade name alone resolved the regulatory breach. The principle reaffirmed is that compliance with food labelling regulations req