The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India recently made amendments to the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020. It will be called the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) First Amendment Regulations, 2022 and come into effect on 1st October 2022. As per the amendment, data has been added or replaced in a few regulations and sub-regulations.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has released Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) First Amendment Regulations, 2022 which has lead to the following amendments:
The labelling of the food for infant nutrition shall be in accordance with Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020.
Sub-regulation 3 has been added under regulation 7 for Infant Formula which states that 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'.
The limits for Vitamin B12 under the requirement per 100 g and requirements per 100 kcal have been increased from 0.25 - 0.70 mcg and 0.05 - 0.15 mcg respectively to 0.25 – 4.0 mcg and 0.05 - 0.90 mcg respectively for both Infant Formula and Follow-up Formula.
Packaging gases Carbon dioxide and Nitrogen have been added for use at GMP for Follow-up Formula.