Draft Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Amendment Regulations, 2021
The Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) on September 22, 2021 has issued Draft Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Amendment Regulations, 2021 to further amend the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020. The amendment in the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020 are as follows: In Regulation 7 (1) (g) (19) which specifies “Vitamin B12, µg”, has been substituted. In Regulation 7 (2) (3) which specifies “where an infant formula in powder format is manufactured without use of any vegetable oil, linoleate, vitamin E, starch, specified food additive and optional ingredients, the product may be named as Infant Milk Food”, has been inserted. In Regulation 10 (1) (h) (15) which specifies “Vitamin B12, µg”, has substituted. In Regulation 10 (2) (a) which specifies “Packaging gases”, has been inserted.
