Food Safety Helpline would like to take the opportunity to explore and share with you the important aspects of the food product approval system through a web-conference. We have scheduled this web-conference especially for those of you who would like to gain knowledge and seeking more information about product approval. The interactive question and answer session with our experts will provide Food Business Operators a chance to clarify their doubts about the product approval but also to interact live with our experts who could take up the questions during the session.
Do join this useful web-conference on ‘Food Product Approval – Regulatory Requirements & Procedures’
The Program:
Date: 28th November, 2014
Time: at 3:00 p.m. (IST)
Duration: 1 hr.
The market is growing at a steady pace for products like Health Supplements, Dietary Supplements, Functional Foods, Organic Foods, Genetically Modified Foods, Novel foods and other such products. The Nutra & Health Supplement segment in India is set to achieve a target that is likely to cross the $4 billion mark in the next 5 years.
At present, Nutra and health supplement food products are being manufactured, imported and distributed according to the guidelines under Section 22 of the Food Safety & Standards Act, 2006. The manufacturer, distributor, seller or the importer of these food articles have to apply & take consent from ‘FSSAI’ through the Food Product Approval procedure.
Our Experts for the session:
Dr. Pawan Vats
Dr. Khalid Khan
Dr. Saurabh Arora
Agenda Items:
- Who all are covered under the Licensing & Registration in compliance with Food Safety & Standards Act?
- What is Section 22 of the FSS Act, 2006?
- What is the latest advisory with regard to the contents of Section 22 of FSS Act, 2006?
- What is Food Product Approval?
- What are standardized food products?
- What are the non-standardized food products?
- What are the products, ingredients and compositions that have to be sent for the consent of the scientific panel?
- What are the food products, ingredients and compositions that do not require approval?
- What are the documents that are required for getting food product approval?
- What is the procedure for applying for food product approval?
Brief Profile of our experts
Dr. Pawan Vats
- Vice President (Food Safety) at Auriga Research Ltd
- Ph.D in Chemistry, Post Graduate in Foods & Drugs Analysis
- Previously with Department of Food Safety, Government of NCT of Delhi
- Training of Food Safety Officers, Designated Officers, Adjudicating Officers, PGDFSQM for IGNOU
- Review of Food Safety Act & rules, Delhi PFA rules
- Food Safety and Standards Act, Rules & Regulations with different industry bodies
- Third Party Auditor-BRC Global Standard for Food Safety
Dr. Khalid Khan
- Head: Fermish Clinical Technologies Pvt. Ltd., and Kleward Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
- Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Regulatory Consultant: since 1993
- Experience: Handling of approvals and clinical trial applications for nutra & health supplements, drugs, medical devices, biological and cosmetic products
- GMP & GCP audits, imparting training on regulations
- Specialization: Regulatory affairs, clinical research and strategic alliance
Dr. Saurabh Arora
- Ph.D in Pharmaceutics
- Founder: FoodSafetyHelpline.Com
- Director: Auriga Research Ltd
- Director: Arbro Pharmaceuticals Ltd (Arbro Analytical Division being one of the largest food testing laboratories in India)
- Leading the services business of Arbro and Auriga for over 9 Yrs
- Managing 4 food testing labs and a team of over 250 people
Click here to Register for the web-conference on Food Product Approval
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