India: India's FSSAI Rolls Out Re-Operationalized Labeling and Display Regulations

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   IN2023-0003

On January 6, 2023, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) notified on its public website, Direction STD/SP-08/A1.2022/N-01-Part(I). The FSSAI directive indicates that the draft Food Safety and Standards (Labeling and Display) Amendment Regulations (2022), as per provisions specified in its earlier directives of June 17, 2022 and of November 30, 2022, is re-operationalized as of January 1, 2023. India's FSSAI is issuing this directive assuming that the regulation in its final form will be delayed for the foreseeable future.

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