The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on November 17, 2023, issued a notification regarding direction under Section 16(5) of the FSS Act, 2006 regarding operationalisation of the Draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations w.r.t. the standards of Vitamin and Mineral Premix for manufacturing of FRK.
The following has been stated: -
•In exercise of the powers under Section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, FSSAI has framed the Draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Product and Food) w.r.t. the limit of micronutrients in Vitamin and Mineral Premix for Fortified Rice Kernels (FRK)
•To strengthen the National level fortification programme and its implementation, it has been decided to operationalize the provisions related to the limits of micronutrients in Vitamin and Mineral Premix for manufacturing of Fortified Rice Kernels (FRK)with immediate effect as given in the document below.
The detailed notification is given in the document attached below.
[Notification No. File No. SS-T0SP18(SG)/1/2023-Standard-FSSAI-Part(1)]
