The Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country’s apex food regulator, has issued a draft to regulate standards for organic foods and asked the stakeholders to submit their objections and suggestions within 30 days.
The regulations, called Food Safety and Standards (Organic Foods) Regulations, 2017, restricts food business operators (FBOs) from manufacturing, packing, […]
According to food regulations, labels on food products are mandatory and no food product can be sold without proper labelling as specified in the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011. Labels on food products are important for two major reasons:
For the consumer they are important because the label information is […]
All major players in the edible oil manufacturing and processing sector have decided to fortify all their variants with Vitamins A and D within the next three months. The decision was the outcome of a meeting convened by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in New Delhi recently.
Over 130 persons, representing […]
Through a notice date March 7, 2017, the FSSAI has asked for comments, suggestions and objections from stakeholders on microbiological testing of meat and meat products and fish and fish products.Â
The FSSAI has asked for comments only for meat and meat products and fish and fish products because when the microbiological manual was uploaded […]
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has released a draft food processing policy. It would be a model Act, on the basis of which the states can draft their respective Acts.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, minister of food processing industries said, “The National Food Processing Policy will document the best practices of the states […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]