Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) First Amendment Regulations, 2025, which amend the existing 2018 regulations. Following the draft amendment’s public notification on May 17, 2022, and a 60-day consultation period, the FSSAI reviewed received objections and suggestions before finalizing the amendment. The key revision modifies Regulation 4(4)(e), permitting the use of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for food packaging, storage, and distribution, subject to compliance with notified standards and guidelines. The amendment aligns with national regulations and will take effect upon publication in the Official Gazette.
FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 28 March, 2025
F. No. STD/SP-20/T(Recycledplastics-N) – Whereas, the draft of the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Amendment Regulations, 2022, were published as required under 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-20/T(Recycledplastics-N), dated the 17th May, 2022 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 notifications were made available to the public;
And, whereas, the copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on the 24th May, 2022;
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 sub-section (2) of section 92 read with section 23 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018, namely: –
1. Short title and commencement – (1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) First Amendment Regulations, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018, in regulation 4, in sub-regulation (4), for clause (e), the following clause shall be substituted, namely: –
‘(e) Products made of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) may be used for packaging, storing, carrying or dispensing of food products as and when standards and guidelines are notified by the Food Authority and such packaging materials shall comply with national standards or regulations as applicable to such materials.’
G. KAMALA VARDHANA RAO, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./1124/2024-25]
Note. – The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 vide notification number File No. 1-95/Stds/Packaging/SP(L&C/A)/FSSAI-2017, dated the 24th December, 2018 and subsequently amended vide notification numbers –
(1) No. Std/SP-08/A-1.2019/N-01, dated the 25th January, 2022; and
(2) No. Std/SP-20/T(Migration-N), dated the 30th August, 2022.
