The FSSAI has issued a notice proposing some amendments to the Draft Food Safety & Standards (Health Supplements, Nutraceuticals, Food for Special Dietary Use, Food for Special Medical Purpose, Functional food, and Novel food) Amendment Regulations, 2018. The FSSAI has also invited suggestions, views, comments etc. from stakeholders within a period of 60 days on […]
What are Functional Foods? Are there any regulations for such food articles?
More than 2500 years ago Hippocrates said that food is medicine and medicine is food. Though functional foods are not medicine yet they have a positive impact on health. Actually all foods that provide taste, aroma and nutritive value can be considered functional foods. However, in the modern day functional foods are defined as foods […]
Free Online Training Session on Food Product Approval
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 […]