The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare vide its notification dated 4th March 2021 has notified Draft Food Safety and Standards (Import) Amendment Regulations, 2021 and the ministry has invited Objections and suggestions from the public which shall be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Food and Drug Administration Bhawan, Kotla Road, New Delhi – 110002, or may be sent through e-mail at regulation@fssai.gov.in within 60 days.
Through this amendment, the Food Safety and Standards (Import) Regulations, 2017, in sub-regulation (3) of regulation 7, clause (b) has been omitted.
Regulation 7(3)(b) notifies the articles of food or ingredients or additives which are being imported by the manufacturers or processors for their captive use or production of value added products for hundred per cent exports; or additives imported by the firms or companies for use of their sister concerns or wholly owned subsidiary companies, to be used for hundred per cent export production subject to a defined relationship agreement between the two entities in this behalf has been omitted.