The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has taken a significant step towards curbing plastic pollution by notifying the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021. These rules impose a ban on the manufacturing, importing, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of various single-use plastic items. Effective from 1st July, 2022, the ban aims to reduce […]
FSSAI’s Draft Notification on Recycled Plastics in Food Packaging
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI) has published a draft regulations to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018. FSSAI proposes to make with previous approval of the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 92 read with section 23 of the Food Safety and […]
FSSAI restricts the use of newspapers as food packaging material
The FSSAI has published an advisory dated 6 December 2016 restricting the use of newspapers as a packaging material because it is a potential health hazard. There must have been numerous occasions when you have eaten street food like bhel puri or chana jor garam out of a newspaper cone and never realized how it […]