Executive Summary:
This notification from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) announces draft amendments to the Food Safety and Standards (Fortification of Foods) Regulations, 2018. It specifies compliance standards for micronutrient content in fortified foods and labeling requirements. Objections or suggestions regarding these amendments can be submitted within 30 days of the gazette's publication.
Key Points / Main Content:
Micronutrient Content in Fortified Foods:
* Manufacturers must ensure the declared value of micronutrients on the label of fortified foods falls within the minimum-maximum levels specified in Schedule I throughout the product's declared shelf life.
Packaging and Labelling Requirements:
* A tolerance of 10% of the declared value of micronutrients on the label is allowed for compliance and analysis purposes at any point within the product's declared shelf life.
Commencement:
* The regulations shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
Impact Analysis:
Food Manufacturers:
* Impact: Must comply with the revised standards for micronutrient content and labeling of fortified foods.
* Action Required: Adjust manufacturing processes and labeling to meet the new requirements and ensure micronutrient levels are within the specified range throughout the product's shelf life.
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI):
* Impact: Responsible for enforcing the amended regulations and considering any objections or suggestions received.
* Action Required: Review and consider objections/suggestions, finalize and publish the amendments in the Official Gazette.
Consumers:
* Impact: Affected by changes in the micronutrient content and accuracy of labeling on fortified foods.
* Action Required: Be aware of the updated regulations and check labels to understand the micronutrient content of fortified foods.
Key Entities Referenced
Pawan Agarwal: Chief Executive Officer.
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India: An authority that proposes amendments to the Food Safety and Standards Fortification of Foods Regulations.
Food Safety and Standards Fortification of Foods Regulations, 2018: Regulations being amended regarding food fortification.
Central Government: The government body whose approval is required for the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India to make regulations.
Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006: The act under which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India exercises its powers.
Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India: The addressee for objections or suggestions regarding the draft regulations.
Food and Drug Administration Bhawan, Kotla Road, New Delhi: Address to send objections or suggestions regarding the draft regulations
Scientific Committee: Committee associated with notification amendment.
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MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
(Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 28th August, 2019
F. No. 1-116/Scientific Committee/Notif.28.6/2010-FSSAI.—The following draft of certain
regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Fortification of Foods) Regulations, 2018, which
the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India proposes to make, with the previous approval of the Central
Government in exercise of powers conferred by clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 92 of the Food Safety
and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006) is hereby published as required by the said sub-section (1) of section 92,
for the information of persons likely to be affected thereby and notice us hereby given that the said draft
regulations will be taken into consideration after expiry of a period of thirty days from the date on which the
copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published are made available to the public;
Objections or suggestions, if any, may be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India, Food and Drug Administration Bhawan, Kotla Road, New Dlehi-110002, or
may be sent at regulation@fssai.gov.in:
The objection or suggestion which may be received from any person with respect to said draft
regulations, before the expiry of the period specified above, will be considered by the Food Authority.
Draft Regulations
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards
(Fortification of Foods) ......Amendment Regulations, 2019.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Fortification of Foods) Regulations, 2018 (herein after referred as said
regulation)-
(A) in regulation 4 relating to “Compliance with Standards on Micronutrient Content in Fortified Foods”
for sub-regulation (1) the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“Any manufacturer who fortifies any food shall ensure that the declared value of micronutrients
on label of such fortified food shall fall within the levels (minimum-maximum) specified in
Schedule-I during the declared shelf life of the products.”;¹Hkkx IIIµ[k.M 4º Hkkjr dk jkti=k % vlk/kj.k 3
(B) In regulations 7 relating to “Packaging and Labelling Requirements” after sub-regulation (3), the
following provision shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided that tolerance of +/- 10 per cent of the declared value of micronutrients on the label
may be allowed for the purposes of compliance and analysis at any point in time within declared
shelf life of the product.”
PAWAN AGARWAL, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./191/19]
Note : The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4
vide notification number File No. 11/03/Reg/Fortification/2014, dated the 2st August, 2018.
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