The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI) through its order 22.12.2021 stated that the declaration regarding Non-Veg or Veg-Food is mandatory irrespective of the percentage of any ingredient in the food.
The apex body of food safety has further clarified that the obligation upon the Food Business Operators (FBOs) to make disclosure with regard to the article of food being vegetarian or non-vegetarian as stipulated under Clause 2.2.2 (4) of FSS (Packaging & Labeling) Regulations, 2011 is independent of, and not subject to the provisions of Sub-Clause 2.2.2 (2) (d) of the said Regulations. The exemption in the Sub-clause 2.2.2 (2) (d) is only with regard to declaring the sub-components of compound ingredients in the list of ingredients which are less than 5%.
The Food Business Operators (FBO’s) will have to declare the Non-Vegetarian logo in case any individual constituent ingredient of the compound ingredient is of non-vegetarian in origin, irrespective of the percentage of compound ingredient of the food.
Consequently, the Commissioners of Food Safety of all States/UTs and all the Regional Directors of FSSAI are directed to ensure strict enforcement of the Clause 2.2.2 (4) of FSS (Packaging & Labeling) Regulations, 2011.
FSSAI wants all the manufacturing FBOs under the respective jurisdictions should publicize the above clarification to spread awareness and clarify information in public.
Shyamal Kishore says
Dear Sir/Mam,
We have a query wrt Veg/Non-Veg logo declaration:
We are planning to use 1 ingredient whose manufacturing step used Egg as part of the nutrients – it was used for the fermentation broth and is fully consumed during this processing step as supported by the analytical Report.
Can this ingredient be qualified as Veg ingredient thereby not requiring Non-Veg Logo to be printed on its label.
shivakumar says
1. is there any exemption / relaxation date for of using old non veg symbol ( circle)
2. what is the final amended date for using of changed nonveg symbol ( triangle)
Geet says
I ordered cake from Dale’s Eden bandra pali hill online from the veg section.
But On the cake box it doesn’t indicate any symbol for veg or non veg.
What should i do?
Dr. Saurabh Arora says
Call them and confirm! And ask for a lable next time