Through a notice date March 7, 2017, the FSSAI has asked for comments, suggestions and objections from stakeholders on microbiological testing of meat and meat products and fish and fish products.Â
The FSSAI has asked for comments only for meat and meat products and fish and fish products because when the microbiological manual was uploaded […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in its recent direction, has asked food business operators (FBOs) to comply with maximum limits of trans fatty acids to 5% by weight as prescribed earlier by the regulator while allowing to use existing stocks of the packaging material for next six months up to […]
Through a notification dated 13 February the FSSAI has regularised the amendments to the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 and prescribed standards for some new products and food additives in the regulation CEREAL AND CEREAL PRODUCTS. The FSSAI has taken into consideration the objections, comments and suggestions […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in its recently-issued Gazette notification, has prescribed the revised microbiological requirements for fish and fishery products.
These regulations have prescribed the maximum permissible limits of hygiene and safety indicator organisms with varieties of fishery products.
Besides these, the notification has also laid down the sampling plan and […]
In a move that is expected to open up innovation in the food processing sector and allow the companies to expand their portfolios, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a draft notification for non-specified food and food ingredients for pre-market approval.
Called Pre-market Approval for Non-Standardised Food Regulations 2017, these draft […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is working on new norms for organic food. In the interim, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) will certify foods meant for export.
Exporters require APEDA’s approval, but in the absence of norms from the apex food regulator, APEDA’s certificate would help […]
With many brands using the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) logo to sell their products, notably Patanjali and Dabur, the apex regulator has issued a clarification that its logo can’t be used to sell any product, and that it is not a means for rival companies to denounce their competitors’ products.
The apex […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), has constituted a scientific panel on food fortification and nutrition.
The apex regulator stated, “The panel will identify critical nutritional gaps in the Indian diet in general as well as specific target groups based on diet surveys and credible scientific evidence, define strategies to address nutritional […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued an order directing e-commerce businesses to obtain licenses in order to sell food products in India. According to sources, this was done to remove any ambiguity over regulations on e-commerce in the country.
Now, e-commerce food business operators (FBOs) have to obtain a license […]
FSSAI has released a Gazette notification for food recall procedure. The notification is applicable to the entire food chain which includes the manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, import and export of food. To ensure the food recall, the notification laid emphasis on traceability to follow the movement of a food article through specified stages of […]