Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Second Amendment Regulations, 2022

FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 30th August, 2022

No. Std/SP-20/T(Migration-N).—Whereas the draft of the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Amendment Regulations, 2021, 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(Migration-N), dated the 6^th september, 2021 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, part III, Section 4, for 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 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 Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018, namely: –

Regulations

1. Short title and commencement– (1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Second Amendment Regulations, 2022.

(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 (herein after refer as said regulations), –

(1) In sub-regulation (4) of regulation 4, in Table 1, after Sl. No. 7 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely: –

ARUN SINGHAL, Chief Executive Officer
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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. F. No. Std/SP-08/A-1.2019/N-01, dated the 25^th January, 2022.