FSSAI has Gazette Notified the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) First Amendment Regulations 2021 with regard to incidental occurring of Khesari Dal in gram/pulses on 12 January 2021. The FSSAI has carried out this amendment with the previous approval of the Central Government and has made the following regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulations, 2011.
Regulations
These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) First Amendment Regulations, 2021. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
In the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulations, 2011, in regulation 2.2 relating to ‘Restriction on use of certain ingredient’ after sub-regulation 2.2.1, following shall be inserted
“2.2.2 Notwithstanding the condition at 2.2.1 the maximum allowed limits for any incidentally occurring Khesari dal in grams/pulses shall be not more than 2% including other edible grains.”
Sub regulation 2.2.1 which is mentioned above, states the following
2.2.1: No person in any State shall, with effect from such date as the state government concerned may by notification in the official gazette specify in this behalf, sell or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale, under any description or for use as an ingredient in the preparation of any article of food intended for sale:—
- (a) Kesari gram (Lathyrus sativus) and its products.
- (b) Kesari dal (Lathyrus sativus) and its products.
- (c) Kesari dal flour (Lathyrus sativus) and its products.
- (d) A mixture of Kesari gram (Lathyrus sativus) and Bengal-gram (Cicer arietinum) or any other gram.
- (e) A mixture of Kesari dal (Lathyrus sativus) and Bengal-gram dal (Cicer arietinum) or any other dal.
- (f) A mixture of Kesari dal (Lathyrus sativus) flour and Bengal-gram (Cicer arietinum) flour or any other flour.
Source : FSSAI
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