FSSAI Proposes Amendments to Food Labelling Regulations 2025

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed amendments to the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling & Display) Regulations, 2020. The draft regulations, open for public comments for 60 days, aim to enhance transparency in food labelling. Key changes include mandating bold and larger font sizes for the per-serve percentage contribution to Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of added sugar, saturated fat, and sodium. Additionally, all milk and milk-based products must display a specified logo, with size variations based on the principal display panel area. The amendments also require coffee-chicory mixture declarations to be prominently placed on the front of the package in a rectangular box with capital letters. Stakeholders can submit objections or suggestions to FSSAI via email or post.

Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations, 2025

FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 17^th February , 2025

F. No. SS-T017/1/2023-Standard-FSSAI– The following draft of certain regulations to further amend the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling & Display) Regulations, 2020, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India proposes to make with previous approval of the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (k) of sub-section (2) of section 92 read with section 23 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006) is hereby published as required by sub­section (1) of section 92 of the said Act, 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 the 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 may be sent by e-mail 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. Short title and commencement– These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations, 2025.

2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020 (hereafter referred to as said regulations), –

(1) In regulation 5, sub regulation (3) relating to Nutrition information, in clause (b), after sub clause (ii), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: –

“(ii)(a) The information regarding per serve percentage (%) contribution to Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) be given in bold letters with relatively increased font size for added sugar, saturated fat and sodium content.”

(2) In schedule I, after para (2), the following shall be inserted, namely :-

“(3) All milk and milk products, including composite milk products, as per clause 5(a) of sub-regulation 2.1.1 under regulation 2.1 of Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 shall carry the logo as specified below:

Specifications of logo:

(3) In Schedule-II, para (2), sub para 2.2 relating to Coffee-Chicory Mixture, after clause (2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely: –

“Provided that declarations specified in the clause (1) and (2) of the sub para 2.2 shall be displayed on front of the package, in capital letters within a rectangular box on the principal display Panel”.

G. KAMALA VARDHANA RAO, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./989/2024-25]

Note: The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary part III, section 4, vide notification number F. No. 1-94/FSSAI/SP(Labelling)/2014(Pt-2), dated the 17^th November, 2020 and last amended vide notification number, F. No. Std/SP-08/A-1-2020/N-01, dated the 11^th October, 2022.