The following draft of certain regulations, further to amend the Food Safety and Standards Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales Regulations, 2011, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India proposes to make with the previous approval of the Central Government
FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 27th April, 2023
F. No. REG-11027/2/2022-Regulation-FSSAI.—The following draft of certain regulations, further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales ) Regulations, 2011, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India proposes to make with the previous approval of the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub- section (2) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), is hereby published as required by sub-section (1) thereof, for the information of all persons likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft regulations shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of a period of sixty days from the date on which copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published are made available to the public.
Objections or suggestions, if any, may be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, FDA Bhawan, Kotla Road, New Delhi- 110002 or sent on email at
regulation@fssai.gov.in .
Objections or suggestions which may be received with respect to the said draft regulations within the period specified above shall be considered by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.
Draft Regulations
1. (1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Amendment Regulations, 2023.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in official Gazette.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011,-
(i) In regulation 2.1, in sub-regulation (2.1.1), for the 5th proviso starting with words ‘Provided also that prohibition in Regulation 2.1.1’ and ending with words ‘the relevant standard prescribed by these regulations.’, the following shall be substituted, namely, –
“Provided also that prohibition in Regulation 2.1.1 (5) shall remain inoperative in respect of Multi-Source Edible Oil specified under the clause (24) of sub-regulation (2.2.1) of regulation ‘2.2 of Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, and Multi-Source Edible Oil shall not be sold in a packages weighing more than 15 litres.”
(ii) sub-regulation 2.3.8 of regulation 2.3 shall be omitted;
(iii) in sub-regulation 2.3.14 of regulation 2.3,-
(a) clause (4) and (5) shall be omitted;
(b) in clause (11), the words “AGMARK certification mark bearing” shall be omitted;
(c) in clause (13), the words “AGMARK Certification mark bearing” shall be omitted;
(d) clause (17) and (18) shall be omitted;
(iv) The Form A shall be omitted.
G. KAMALA VARDHANA RAO, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./50/2023-24]
Note. – The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide notification number F. No. 2-15015/30/2010, dated the 1st August, 2011 and subsequently amended vide notification numbers:
(i) F. No. 4/15015/30/2011, dated the 8th February, 2013;
(ii) F. No. Stds/F&VP/Notification (02)/FSSAI-2016, dated the 23rd August, 2016;
(iii) F. No. Stds/O&F/Notification (2)/FSSAI-2016, dated the 23rd August, 2016;
(iv) F. No. A-1(1)/Standards/MMP/2012, dated the 12th October, 2017
(v) F. No. Stds/O&F/Notification (8)/FSSAI-2017, dated the 31st July, 2018;
(vi) F. No. Stds/Salt/Misc/01/FSSAI-2016 (pt-1), dated the 25 June, 2019;
(vii) F. No. Stds/Additives-2/Notification/FSSAI/2018, dated the 25 June, 2019;
(viii) F. No. stds/Additive-3/notification/FSSAI/2018, dated 21 July, 2020;
(ix) F. No. Stds/Agmark-BIS/02/FSSAI-2018, dated 20th October, 2020;
(x) No. Stds/O&F/Notification(12)/FSSAI-2019, dated 26th October, 2020;
(xi) F.No.Reg/Stds-Khesari dal/FSSAI-2020, dated 12th January, 2021;
(xii) F. No. Stds/O&F/Notification(13)/FSSAI-2019, dated 2nd February, 2021;
(xiii) F. No. Stds/SP-15/T[T(IMST)], dated 8th March, 2021;
(xiv) F. No. Stds./03/Notification(IFR)/FSSAI-2017(part-3), dated 31st August, 2022; and
(xv) F.No. REG/Representation-MSEO/FSSAI-2021, dated 5th September, 2022.
