The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India vide its notification dated 2nd February 2021 has published the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Second Amendment Regulations, 2021. The Food Business Operator shall ensure compliance to all the provisions of these regulations for all the products manufactured on or after 1st January 2022.
The Amendment brings in a new definition to the term “Industrial trans fatty acids” which means all the geometrical isomers of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids having non-conjugated, interrupted by at least one methylene group, carbon double bonds in the trans configuration. It excludes trans-fatty acids from dairy, meat, fish and their products.
Under rule 2.3.21 the food Products in which edible oils and fats are used as an ingredient shall not contain industrial trans fatty acids more than 2% by mass of the total oils/fats present in the product, on and from 1st January 2022.
