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Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011

These are the composition standards that make a product 'sub-standard' or 'misbranded' if it fails to meet them, and they govern whether an additive found in a food is legal.

In force Regulation, 2011

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What it covers

Composition standards for specific categories of food (dairy, oils and fats, cereals, spices, sweets and more) and the rules on which food additives may be used, and where they may not.

Duties on businesses

  • Manufacture food that meets the applicable compositional standard for its category.
  • Use only permitted food additives, within permitted limits, for the relevant food category.

Rights for consumers

  • Expect packaged food to meet the standards fixed for its category, and to have any added substance be a genuinely permitted additive, not an adulterant.

Authorities

  • FSSAI

How to complain under this law

Report suspected non-compliant products via Food Safety Connect (FoSCoS) or your state food safety department.

Official text: https://www.fssai.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/1_%20Chapter%201%20(General).pdf (opens in a new tab)