FSSAI has issued a Gazette Notification dated 9 July 2020 for the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Fourth Amendment Regulations, 2020 relating to
- Canned or Retort Pouch Meat Product
- Comminuted or Restructured Meat Products
- Cured or Pickled and Cooked or Smoked Meat Products, or both
- Dried or Dehydrated Meat Products
- Cooked or Semi-Cooked Meat Products
- Fresh or Chilled or Frozen Rabbit meat
- Marinated Meat Products
- Fermented Meat Products
These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Fourth Amendment Regulations, 2020. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette and Food Business Operator shall comply with all the provisions of these regulations by 1 July, 2021.
The previous standards for canned corned beef, canned luncheon meat, canned cooked ham, canned chopped meat, canned chicken, canned mutton and goat meat have all been omitted and the following food products have been substituted.
In the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, in regulation 2.5 MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS in sub-regulation 2.5.2 relating to Meat and Meat Products the standards for the following have been amended and now been replaced.
The detail can be read using the following link:
