Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
(Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 6th February, 2015
F. No P. 15025/208/2013-PA/FSSAI.—The following draft of
certain regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food
Additives) Regulations, 2011, which the Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India proposes to make with the
previous approval of Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section
92 read with section 16 of the Food Safety and Standards
Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), hereby publishes as required by
sub-section (1) of section 92 of the said Act, for the information of all persons likely to be affected thereby, and notice is
hereby given that the said draft regulations shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of the period of thirty days
from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published are made available to
the public;
Objections or suggestions, if any, may be addressed to the
Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, Food and Drug Administration Bhawan,
Kotla Road, New Delhi-110002;
Any objections or suggestions, which may be received from
any person with respect to the said draft regulation before the expiry of the period so specified, shall be
considered by the Food Authority.
Draft regulations
1. (1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and
Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives)
(Amendment) Regulations, 2015.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards
and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011,-
(a) in regulation 3.1.3 relating to “Artificial Sweetener”,
after sub regulation (5), the following sub-regulation shall be inserted, namely:-
“(6) Use of Non Nutritive Sweetener.—The non nutritive
sweetener mentioned in column (2) of the Table below may be used only in the food articles mentioned in column
(3) and in quantities not exceeding the limits mentioned in column (4) and as per the provisions contained in these
regulations:
TABLE
Provided further that the Steviol Glycoside may be marketed
as table top sweetener in tablet form which may contain seven mg as Steviol equivalent per 100 mg with carrier or
filler as mentioned in the second proviso of Explanation II of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 3.1.3”.
(b) In regulation 3.2 relating to “Standards of food
additives”, after sub-regulation 3.2.1 the following sub-regulation shall be inserted, namely:-
“3.2.2 Sweetener:- The standards for various sweeteners with
characteristics are –
(1) Steviol Glycoside- White to light yellow powder,
odorless or having a slight characteristic odor. About 200 - 300 times sweeter than sucrose. The product is obtained from the
leaves of stevia rebaudiana bertoni. The leaves are
extracted with hot water and the aqueous extract is passed
through an adsorption resin to trap and concentrate the component steviol glycosides. The resin is washed with a
solvent alcohol to release the glycosides and the product is re- crystallized from methanol or aqueous ethanol. Ion exchange
resins may be used in the purification process. The final product may be spray-dried. Stevioside and rebaudioside A
are the component glycosides of principal interest for their sweetening property. Associated glycosides include
rebaudioside B, rebaudioside C, rebaudioside D, rebaudioside F, dulcoside A, rubusoside and steviolbioside which are
generally present in preparations of steviol glycosides at levels lower than stevioside or rebaudioside A.
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