FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 11th October, 2022
F. No. Std/SP-08/A-1-2020/N-01.- Whereas the draft of the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations, 2021, were published as required by sub-section (1) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), vide notification of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India number, F. No. Std/SP-08/A-1-2020/N-01, dated the 6th September, 2021, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, inviting objections and suggestions from the persons likely to be affected thereby, before the expiry of the 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 Gazette were made available to the public on the 8th 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 (k) of sub-section (2) of section 92 read with section 23 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 (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020, namely: –
Regulations
1. (1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Second Amendment Regulations, 2022.
(2) They shall come into force on 1st May, 2023.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020 (hereafter referred to as the said regulations), in Schedule II ,-
(i) In paragraph 1, in sub- paragraph (3), in the table, for Sl. No. 1 and the entries relating thereto, 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”; |
(ii) In paragraph 2, after sub- paragraph 2.5, the following sub- paragraph 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) and (4) of the table below:
|
S. No. (1) |
Name of Bread (2) | Specialty Ingredient (3) | Minimum amount of Specialty Ingredient as % of Flour
(4) |
| 1. | Whole Wheat Bread | Whole wheat flour (Atta) | Whole wheat flour should be at least 75% |
| 2. | Wheat Bread or Brown Bread | Whole wheat flour (Atta) | Whole wheat flour should be at least 50% |
| 3. | White bread | Refined wheat flour (Maida) | – |
| 4. | Multigrain Bread | Food grains permitted under FSS
(Food Product Standards & Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 |
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 | 10% |
| (i) | Triticale bread | Triticale flour | 20% |
| (j) | Rye bread | Rye flour | 20% |
| (k) | Raisin bread | Raisins | 10% |
| (l) | Bran bread | Edible Bran | 5% |
| (m) | Protein enriched bread (Protein prachur bread) | Edible Protein | 15% Protein |
| (n) | Bread such as Garlic bread, masala bread, oregano bread etc. | Garlic, Oregano etc. | 2% |
| (o) | Bread with seeds such as flax seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds etc. | Flax Seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds etc. | 5%
|
Note: The calculation of specialty ingredient is on 100g flour basis.
*The Minimum amount of Specialty Ingredient in case of Multigrain Bread shall be minimum 10% in the 1st year of enforcement and thereafter it shall be 20%.”
S GOPALAKRISHNAN, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./329/2022-23]
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 17th November, 2020, and subsequently amended vide notification numbers:
(i) F. No. Std/SP-08/A-1.2019/N-02, dated the 10th September, 2021.
(ii) F. No. Std/SP-08/A-1.2021/N-01, dated the 09th September, 2022.
