The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on October 03, 2024, notified the Draft Food Safety and Standards (Import) Amendment Regulations, 2024 to further amend the Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulations, 2017.
The following has been stated-
Draft regulations shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of a period of sixty days from the date on which copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published are made available to the public.
•In regulation 10, in sub-regulation (4), for clause (b), the following shall be substituted, namely: - “(b) The manuals of the method of analysis, as amended or adopted by the Authority from time to time, shall be used for analysing the samples of food articles. However, in case the method for analysing any parameter is not available in these manuals, the Food Laboratory may adopt a validated method of analysis prescribed by AOAC/ ISO / Pearson’s/ Jacob/ IUPAC/ Food Chemicals CODEX/ BIS/ Codex Alimentarius/ Woodmen/ Winton-Winton/ Joslyn or any other internationally recognized regulatory agencies.”;
•In regulation 10, for sub-regulation (5), the following shall be substituted, namely: - “(5) The notified laboratory or referral laboratory shall provide the laboratory analysis report duly signed by its Food Analyst or Director, as the case may be, in FORM - 2 within five days from the date of receipt of the sample.”
[Notification No.QA/11023/31/2022-QA-FSSAI(1)]
