The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on October 17, 2023, issued a notification regarding direction under Section 16 (5) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 regarding the re-operationalization of Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment regulations 2022 related to Labelling Requirements of non-retail container, minimally processed food, tolerance limit, warning statement related to pan masala, etc.
The following has been stated: -
•In exercise of the power conferred under section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, FSSAI has framed draft Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations 2022 and the same were operationalized vide direction STD/SP- 08/A1.2022/N-01-Part (1) dated June 17, 2022, and re-operationalized vide direction STD/SP- 08/A1.2022/N-01-Part (1) dated January 06, 2023.
•The draft Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations 2022 were also notified on November 30, 2022, for inviting comments from stakeholders and are now under the process of finalization. As the notification of final amendment regulation is likely to take some time, it has been decided to re-operationalize the provisions specified in the directions on January 06, 2023, with effect from July 01, 2023.
The detailed notification is given in the document attached below.
[Notification No. File No: STD/SP-08/A1.2022/N-01-Part (1)]
