FSSAI -Press Note “Omission of labelling requirements w.r.t. declaration of quantity of added sugar for Non-Alcoholic Carbonated Beverages”.

FSSAI has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food
Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2017 so as to delete the provision of declaration of
quantity of added sugar from Sub-Regulation 2.10.6 of the FSS (Food Product Standards
and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011.

The amendment regulations addresses the issue of duplicity/overlapping of provisions
in respect of the declaration of added sugar for non-alcoholic carbonated beverages
under the Sub- Regulation 2.10.6 of the FSS (Food Product Standards and Food
Additives) Regulations, 2011 and the Sub-Regulation 2.2.2.3(ii) of the FSS (Packaging
and Labelling) Regulations, 2011.

The above regulation came into force on the date of their publication in the Official
Gazette.

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http://www.fssai.gov.in/home/fss-legislation/notifications/gazette-notification.html