The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on August 22, 2023, notified the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) First Amendment Regulations, 2023 further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Regulations, 2018.
The following has been stated: -
•In the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Regulations, 2018, - (1) In Part 2, in regulation 2.8, in sub-regulation 2.8.1 related to Malt or grain whisky, for clause (i) the following shall be substituted, namely, -
(i)Single malt whisky is a distillate obtained from fermented mash that uses malted barley without adding any other grain, which is distilled in pot still only and produced in a single distillery.
(ia) Single-grain whisky is a distillate obtained from a fermented mash that uses malted or unmalted grain and is produced in a single distillery. Single grain whisky shall not include single malt whisky and blended malt whisky or blended grain whisky”.
•In Part 5, for regulation 5.5 the following shall be substituted, namely, - “5.5 Alcoholic beverage shall not contain any nutritional information on the label except energy content in kcal. Such declaration related to energy content shall be voluntary”.
They shall come into force on March 01, 2024.
The detailed notification is given in the document attached below.
[Notification No. F. No. STD/SP-21/T(Alcohol-4).]
