The draft of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Amendment Regulations, 2021, were published as required under sub-section (1) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006) vide notification of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, F.No.Stds./03/Notification(IFR)/FSSAI- 2017(part-3), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, part III, Section 4, dated the 06th September, 2021. The objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected have been invited before the expiry of the period of sixty days from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette containing the said notifications were made available to the public;
Notably, the copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on the 08th September, 2021 .FSSAI has considered the suggestions received from the public.
Consequently, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India makes the following regulations to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011, namely: –
Regulations
- Short title and commencement. –
- These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) First Amendment Regulations, 2022.
- They shall come into force on 1st April, 2023.
- In the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011 (hereinafter referred as said regulations), –
- In regulation 2.3, in sub-regulation 2.3.14, for clause (4), the following shall be substituted, namely: –
“No person shall manufacture, sell, store or exhibit for sale food for infant nutrition, except under Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Certification Mark, wherever BIS standards are available”.
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