The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has prohibited five manufacturers from selling popular rum and whisky drinks for not complying with regulations, said the Ministry of Health and Welfare on Monday. “At best, they can be identified as rum-flavoured spirit or whisky-flavoured spirit, etc,” it said. They have been prohibited from selling variants of rum and whiskey. “The present matter, however, concerns the practice adopted by certain manufacturers of adding the flavour of the standardised alcoholic beverage itself,” the ministry pointed out. The addition of rum flavour to rum or whisky flavour to whisky is not supported by any legitimate technological justification, as required under the regulatory framework governing food additives, it added.