India: The FSSAI's 2021 Draft Amendments to the Approval of Non-Specified Food and Food Ingredients Regulation is now a Final Amendment in 2022

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India: The FSSAI's 2021 Draft Amendments to the Approval of Non-Specified Food and Food Ingredients Regulation is now a Final Amendment in 2022

On October 11, 2022, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published notification No. Std/EC/T(NSF-01) in the Gazette of India: Extraordinary (official gazette). The notification was subsequently published on the FSSAI website on October 14, 2022. The notification refers to amendments made in the Food Safety and Standards (Approval for Non-Specified Food and Food Ingredients) Regulations (2017), pertaining to regulation (4) 'Procedure for grant of prior approval' of non-specified food and food ingredients. The draft amendments were published earlier on September 22, 2021, with comments having then been invited from the World Trade Organization (WTO) members.

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