The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India on 14th October 2021 has published the Food Safety and Standards (Organic Foods) First Amendment Regulations, 2021, the food business operator shall comply with all the provisions of these regulations with effect from 1st May, 2022.
The amendment is brought under regulation 4 which deals with applicability of the system in which the following sub regulation 3 has been inserted:
Aggregators or Intermediaries who collect organic food from small original producer or producer organization and sell it to the end consumer directly, are exempted from the provisions of the systems and they shall maintain records of traceability and comply with any of the provisions of the systems and organic food shall not carry Food Safety and Standard Authority of India’s organic logo.”
Further regulation 5 deals with labelling on the package of organic food in which the In-conversion products under PGS-India may be labelled as ‘PGS-Green’ and may also be labelled as „In-conversion to organic‟ and the conversion products under NPOP may be labelled as „In-conversion to organic’ and shall mention the year of conversion and such in-conversion products shall not carry Food Safety and Standard Authority of India’s organic logo.”
