The FSSAI on 13.10.2020 has published the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Ninth Amendment Regulations, 2020. Food Business Operators shall comply with all the provisions of these regulations by 1st July, 2021. Use of substance as a processing aid is allowed only when such use performs one or more technological functions during treatment or processing of raw materials, foods, or ingredients. Any residues of processing aids remaining in the food after processing should not perform a technological function in the final product. Processing shall be used only as per following good manufacturing practices: –
- the quantity of the substance used shall be limited to the lowest achievable level necessary to accomplish its desired technological function;
- Residues or derivatives of the substance remaining in food should be reduced to the extent reasonably achievable and should not pose any health risk;
- The substance is prepared and handled in the same way as a food ingredient.;
