The FSSAI has suggested changes in the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011. Under the regulation FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS the parameters for the use of Aflatoxin in Raisins and Nuts (2.3.47) and the entries relating to it have been omitted.
In the FSSAI drafts notification related to standards […]
Food gets a lion share in total consumption expenditure of households ranging from 38.5% in urban to 48.6% in rural India (2011-12). India’s food processing sector is growing at an average rate of 8.4% (2008/09-2012/13) to meet an internal as well as global demand. It is also ranked sixth in the world in exporting […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is working on streamlining the licensing and registration system in the country. New forms would be made available to food business operators (FBOs), particularly restaurateurs. The sampling-, search- and seizure-related regulations would be reviewed, and the process would be made simple and hassle-free.
During the recent […]
Food regulator FSSAI has come out with a draft regulation for organic food products, seeking to ensure that these food items are actually organic.
Organic foods will have to comply with the provisions under the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) administered by the government or the Participatory Guarantee System for India (PGS-India) run by […]
The FSSAI had notified standards for caffeinated beverages in December 2016. According to the December notification the transition period of six months, which was to be up to 1 July 2017, had been given to FBOs to comply with the prescribed standards. However, through the direction issued on 15 June 2017 the FSSAI has […]
What is USDA certification?
Certification is the process by which the consumer is assured that a product marketed as “organic” is in compliance with production and handling requirements set forth in USDA regulations.
All producers of organic food, livestock, and fiber crops as well as handlers or organic products must be certified (except growers who gross […]
Soon, packaged food companies will have to disclose details of genetically modified (GM) ingredients used in processed food on the labels. The country’s food regulator, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), is working on the final guidelines on the labelling of GM foods, its chief executive officer Pawan Kumar Agarwal said.
“Genetically modified […]
Following a revision of the tax slabs by the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council, the 18 per cent tax levied on several packaged food items was reduced to 12 per cent. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said, “Fruit and vegetable products, such as pickles, spreads, ketchup and mustard sauce, and instant food mixes, have […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will soon initiate a programme for setting up a Food Safety Index in the country. Under the programme, each state would be judged on various parametersvis-Ã -vis the food safety ecosystem, from enforcement to consumer awareness.
The country’s apex food regulator is working on the contours of […]