Product Compliance

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a draft to re-operationalize the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Business) Amendment Regulations 2020 with immediate effect from 27th March 2021. However, the draft of this regulation was notified in November last year, and FSSAI invited comments from the stakeholders.
There is time to finalize these regulations, it has been decided by the Food Authority to re-operationalise FSS (Licensing and Registration) Amendment Regulations 2020 from March 27th, 2021. The regulation is related to testing, inspection, and appointment of food safety supervisors for food businesses.

FBOs will be required to upload test reports showing levels of fortificants in fortified food products from an FSSAI notified / NABL accredited Lab against each product for +F endorsement to substantiate the claims made for fortification. The grant of +F endorsement certificate by the concerned designated officers or registration authorities shall be based on the application submitted by the FBOs.

FSSAI: Letter Regarding Licensing of Infant Food Other than those Specified in Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 and their compliance The manufacturing and sale of infant formula is a big business. Infant Formula marketing is widespread and uses powerful emotional advertising to sell parents, sometimes a vastly inferior […]

FSSAI Issues Advisory for Strict Compliance of Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Food as per the IMS Act Rapid lifestyle changes with urbanization and high craze for quality baby food products encourage consumers to opt for baby food substitutes in this era. These days parenting concerns are growing, and panic is increasing for […]

FSSAI re-operationalises the Food Safety & Standards Amendment Regulations 2020 Since the comprehensive final Regulations will take some more time before being notified and enforced, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a notification regarding re-operationalisation of the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2020. In […]

In July 2019, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) came out with a very noble initiative of the Food Safety and Standards (Recovery and Distribution of Surplus Food) Regulations, 2019. The new regulations expect the surplus food distribution organizations to comply with the food hygiene measures as per the Food Safety and […]

FSSAI Launches Food Safety Compliance System (FoSCoS)- Platform For Food Safety Compliance   In the FSSAI regulations, there are two categories of food products —standardized and non- standardized. The standardized food products are those food items for which standards are prescribed and do not require product approval before manufacture, distribution, sale, or import in India. […]