The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a notification regarding the re-operationalization of Food Safety Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment regulations 2022. This direction was issued on June 5, 2024.
The draft amendment regulations contemplate labelling requirements of the non-retail container, minimally processed food, tolerance limit, warning statement related to pan masala, etc.
The Draft Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations 2022 were notified on November 30, 2022, for public input from stakeholders. The FSSAI had observed that the finalization of these draft regulations is likely to take some time. Hence, by a direction dated January 6, 2023 it had re-operationalized these draft amendment regulations. FSSAI has now decided to further extend this re-operationalization with effect from January 1, 2024.
