FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 17th May, 2022
F. No. Std/SP-21/T(Alcohol-4).- The following draft of certain regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Regulations, 2018, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, with the previous approval of the Central Government, proposes to make, in exercise of powers conferred by clause (v) of 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) of section 92 of the said Act, for the information of persons likely to be affected thereby and notice is hereby given that the said draft regulations will 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 and suggestions, if any, may be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Food and Drug Administration Bhawan, Kotla Road, New Delhi – 110002, or may be sent through e-mail at [email protected];
The objections or suggestions which may be received from any person with respect to said draft regulations, before the expiry of the period so specified above, will be considered by the Food Authority.
Draft regulations
1. These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Amendment Regulations, 2022.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Regulations, 2018, –
(1) in Part 2, in regulation 2.8, in sub-regulation 2.8.1, for clause (i) the following shall be substituted, namely,-
“(i) Single malt or Single grain whisky: Single malt or Single grain whisky is a distillate obtained from fermented mash that uses malted barley or malted/ unmalted grain, respectively, distilled in pot still only, and produced in a single distillery”.
(2) in Part 5, for the regulation 5.5 the following shall be substituted, namely,-
“5.5 Alcoholic beverage shall not contain any nutritional information on the label except energy content in K.Cal. Such declaration related to energy content shall be voluntary”.
ARUN SINGHAL, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT. III/4/Exty./72/2022-23]
Note: The principal regulation were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary Part III, Section 4, vide notification number F. No. 2/SA-24/2009(1)/FSSAI, dated 19th March, 2018 and subsequently amended vide notification no. F. No. Stds/SP(water and Beverages)/Notification(1)/FSSAI-2019 dated 18th December, 2020.
