FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 6th September, 2021
No. Std/SP-08/A-1-2020/N-01.—The following draft of certain regulations to further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India,with previous approval of Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (k) of sub section (2) of section 92 read with section 23 of Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006)hereby published as required by the said sub-section (2), for the information of all persons likely to be affected thereby, and notice is hereby given that the said draft regulation shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of the period of sixty days from the date on which the 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 before the expiry of period so specified shall be considered by the Food Safety and Standards authority of India.
Draft Regulations
1. These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations, 2021.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020 (herein after refer as said
regulations), –
(1) In Schedule II, in Sub-Regulation (3) of Regulation 1, for Serial Number (1), the following shall be substituted, namely: –
| S. No. | Articles of food | Declarations |
| 1. | Pan Masala | CHEWING OF PAN MASALA IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH
Note: The warning statement must cover 50% of front-of-pack of the label |
(2) In schedule-II, in Regulation 2, after sub-regulation 2.5, the following sub-regulation shall be inserted, namely:-
“2.6 Labelling of various types of bread
The nomenclature of various breads mentioned in column (2) shall comply with requirements mentioned in columns (3) & (4) of the table below:
| S.No. | Name of Bread | Specialty Ingredient | Minimum amount of Specialty Ingredient as % of Flour |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| 1. | Whole Wheat Bread | Whole wheat flour (Atta) | 75% |
| 2. | Wheat Bread or Brown Bread | Whole wheat flour (Atta) | Whole grain flour should be at least 50% (dry mass basis) |
| 3. | White bread | Refined wheat flour (Maida) | – |
| 4. | Multigrain Bread | Food grains permitted
under FSS (Food Product Standards & Food Additives) Regulations, |
Minimum 20% should be grains other than wheat |
| 5. | Specialty Bread | Specialty ingredient that must be present in case a prefix is added to the term “bread” on the label | |
| a) | Milk bread | Milk solids | 6% |
| b) | Honey bread | Honey | 5% |
| c) | Cheese bread | Cheese | 10% |
| d) | Oatmeal bread | Oats | 15% |
| e) | Cracked wheat /Dhalia bread | Cracked wheat/Dhalia | 15% |
| f) | Bread with wheat germ | Wheat germ | 2% |
| g) | Egg bread | Edible Whole Egg solids | 1.5% |
| h) | Fruit bread or loaf | Candied Fruit | 20% |
| i) | Triticale bread | Triticale flour | 20% |
| j) | Rye bread | Rye flour | 20% |
| k) | Raisin bread | Raisins | 20% |
| l) | Bran bread | Edible Bran | 5% |
| m) | Protein enriched bread (Protein prachur bread) | Edible Protein | 20%Protein |
| n) | Bread such as Garlic bread, masala bread, oregano bread etc. | Garlic, Orgeno etc. | 2% |
ARUN SINGHAL, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./233/2021]
Note.- The principal regulation 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 17th November, 2020.
