Food Safety and Standards Second Amendment Regulations 2023

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI) has published the draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2021. The notification was issued on 27 December, 2021, in accordance with Section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006). All parties that may be affected by this draft are encouraged to submit their objections or suggestions within the next 60 days before the final decision is made.

And whereas copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on the 6th January, 2022.

The apex body of Food Safety has considered the objections and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said draft regulations.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 92 read with section 16 of the said Act, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, namely: –

(1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Second Amendment Regulations, 2023. (2) They shall come into force on 1st September, 2023. 

(2) In the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, – (1) in regulation 2.1, in sub-regulation 2.1.2 relating to Standards for Milk, in clause 2, in item (b) relating to composition in the Table, –

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