Draft Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Amendment Regulations, 2024
On October 3, 2024, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) announced a draft regulation to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011. This draft, published with the prior approval of the Central Government and under the authority of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, aims to address necessary updates to existing regulations. Specifically, the amendment proposes to omit clause (8) of sub-regulation 2.3.14 from regulation 2.3 of the 2011 regulations. The FSSAI has provided a 60-day window for the public to submit objections or suggestions regarding the draft. Feedback should be directed to the Chief Executive Officer of FSSAI at FDA Bhawan, New Delhi, or via email at [email protected]. The initial regulations were published in the Gazette of India on August 1, 2011, and last amended on September 5, 2022.
FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 3rd October, 2024
No. REG-11027/2/2022-Regulation-FSSAI.—The following draft of certain regulations, further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales ) Regulations, 2011, which the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India proposes to make with the previous approval of the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by 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) thereof, for the information of all persons likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft regulations shall 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 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 [email protected] .
Objections or suggestions, which may be received from any person with respect to the said draft regulations before the expiry of the period so specified, shall be considered by the Food Authority.
Draft Regulations
1. These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Amendment Regulations, 2024.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011, in regulation 2.3, clause (8) of the sub-regulation 2.3.14 shall be omitted
G. KAMALA VARDHANA RAO, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./544/2024-25]
Note. – The principal regulations were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide notification number F. No. 2-15015/30/2010, dated the 1st August, 2011 and last amended vide notification number F. No. REG/Representation-MSEO/FSSAI-2021, dated 5th September, 2022.
