The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in its recent direction, has asked food business operators (FBOs) to comply with maximum limits of trans fatty acids to 5% by weight as prescribed earlier by the regulator while allowing to use existing stocks of the packaging material for next six months up to […]
Through a notification dated 13 February the FSSAI has regularised the amendments to the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 and prescribed standards for some new products and food additives in the regulation CEREAL AND CEREAL PRODUCTS. The FSSAI has taken into consideration the objections, comments and suggestions […]
The ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI) has released a set of draft guidelines for infrastructure for agro processing clusters under the Sampada scheme. The ministry stated that this was primarily to develop agro processing clusters with modern infrastructure close to the production hubs. The project would also help in integrated and complete supply […]
Food irradiation has been a subject of intense investigation for almost half a century and extension of shelf life of foods by gamma radiation is legally permitted in more than 40 countries covering a number of foods such as onion, potato, wheat, spices, flours, meat, poultry, fish, pulses, rice, semolina, fruits, vegetables and dry […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in its recently-issued Gazette notification, has prescribed the revised microbiological requirements for fish and fishery products.
These regulations have prescribed the maximum permissible limits of hygiene and safety indicator organisms with varieties of fishery products.
Besides these, the notification has also laid down the sampling plan and […]
The International Food & Hospitality Fair, New Delhi, India is in its 32nd year. Organised by India Trade Promotion Organisation (the premier trade promotion body of the Government of India), AAHAR is one of Asia’s best known brands in Food & Hospitality shows. The show has grown by leaps & bounds in recent years […]
In a move that is expected to open up innovation in the food processing sector and allow the companies to expand their portfolios, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a draft notification for non-specified food and food ingredients for pre-market approval.
Called Pre-market Approval for Non-Standardised Food Regulations 2017, these draft […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is working on new norms for organic food. In the interim, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) will certify foods meant for export.
Exporters require APEDA’s approval, but in the absence of norms from the apex food regulator, APEDA’s certificate would help […]
Wheat rust, a family of fungal diseases that can cause crop losses of up to 100 per cent in untreated susceptible wheats, is making further advances in Europe, Africa and Asia, according to two new studies produced by scientists in collaboration with FAO.
The reports, highlighted in the journal Nature, following their publication by Aarhus University […]
According to the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011, “Principal Display Panel means that part of the container/package which is intended or likely to be displayed or presented or shown or examined by the customer under normal and customary conditions of display, sale or purchase of the commodity contained therein.â€
In simple […]