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- The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India plans to implement mandatory front-of-pack labels for sugar, salt, and saturated fat on packaged food.
- The agency requested a four-month timeframe to finalize draft regulations through stakeholder and international consultations.
- Food business operators will receive a one-year voluntary transition period to update their packaging to include the new red hexagon warnings.
- This initiative aims to improve consumer awareness regarding the nutritional content of processed food products.
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- Publication of draft amendment regulations
- Duration of the 60-day stakeholder consultation period
- Final notification of the regulations by the Ministry
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Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
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“In this time period, FSSAI will notify the draft amendment regulations which is mandatorily required to be published for a period of 60 days for inviting comments from stakeholders through domestic consultation and the WTO platform. Comments received will be examined, and, subsequently with the approval of Food Authority, the final notification will be forwarded to the Ministry for publication in the official gazette”
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…four-month period for issuing and finalising the draft regulations under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSS Act), 2006. Also Read | Supreme Court questions FSSAI on thresholds for ‘high’ sugar, salt, fat warnings “ In this time period, FSSAI will notify the draft amendment regulations which is mandatorily required to be published for a period of 60 days for inviting comments from stakeholders through domestic consultation and the WTO platform. Comments received will be examined, and, subsequently with the approval of Food Authority, the final notification will be forwarded to the Ministry for publication in the official gazette ,” the FSSAI affidavit said. The affidavit was based on a petition filed by a Kerala-based NGO, 3S and Our Health Society, represented by advocate Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, seeking directions to the Centre to introduce…
“This time period has been provided in order to avoid any commercial hardships to the food business operators as they have pre-packaged material already printed in bulk”
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…clear timeline for FSSAI’s food warning label rollout, calls for nutritional literacy in schools The affidavit said that there would be a voluntary implementation period of 365 days by food business operators (FBOs). “ This time period has been provided in order to avoid any commercial hardships to the food business operators as they have pre-packaged material already printed in bulk ,” it explained. The FSSAI said it was proposing a red hexagon with a white square-shaped background FoPL format, drawing similarity, more or less, with the FoPL format adopted by Canada. Furthermore, where only one…
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