Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) First Amendment Regulations, 2022

FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 30th August, 2022

F.No. Std./SP-05/T(IFR-01).—Whereas the draft of certain regulations, namely, the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) amendment Regulations, 2021, was published vide notification of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India number F. No. Std./SP-05/T(IFR-01), dated the 22nd September, 2021, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, section 4 as required under sub- section (1) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), inviting objections and suggestions from persons likely to be affected thereby, within a period of sixty days from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette containing the said notification were made available to the public;

And whereas the copies of the said Official Gazette were made available to the public on the 24th September, 2021;

And whereas the objections and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said draft regulations have been considered by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (e) of sub- section (2) of section 92 of the said Act, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020, namely: –

Regulation

1. (1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) First Amendment Regulations, 2022.

(2) They shall come into force on 1^st October, 2022.

2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020,-

(1) in regulation 4, in the first paragraph, for the words, brackets and figures ^„Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011‟ the following words, brackets and figures shall be substituted, namely:-

“Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020”;

(2) in regulation 7,

(i) in sub-regulation (1), in clause (g), in the table for serial no 19 and the entries relating thereto the following serial number and entry shall be substituted, namely:-

(ii) after the sub-regulation (2), following shall be inserted namely:-

“(3) where an infant formula in powder format is manufactured without use of any vegetable oil, linoleate, vitamin E, starch, specified food additive and optional ingredients, the product may be named as ^„Infant Milk Food‟.”;

(3) in regulation 10,

(i) in sub-regulation (1), in clause (h), in the table for serial number 15 and the entry relating thereto, the following serial number and entry shall be substituted, namely:-

(ii) in sub-regulation (2), in clause (a), in the table,-

(a) the words ‘pH adjusting agents‟ shall be substituted with the words “Acidity regulators”.

(b) the following shall be inserted at the end , namely:-

ARUN SINGHAL, Chief Executive Officer

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Note : The principal regulation were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary Part III, Section 4, vide notification number F. No. Stds./03/Notification (IFR)/FSSAI-2017, the dated 4^th December, 2020.