India: India's FSSAI Proposes Claims on Additional Categories of Edible Vegetable Oil

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   IN2021-0111

On August 27, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) notified on its website the proposal to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Amendment Regulations (2018), to introduce claims made on additional categories of edible vegetable oil. World Trade Organization (WTO) members are invited to comment on the proposed draft amendment (see, WTO notification G/SPS/N/IND/266 of September 13, 2021); the timeline to provide comments by is November 12, 2021.

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