Monday, 15 March, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued Gazette Notification on Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Amendment Regulations, 2020, to prohibit blending in Mustard Oil and renaming of blended oil to multi sourced edible vegetable oil.
Called the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Third Amendment Regulations, 2021, it will come into force on June 8, 2021, says the notification.
The amendment is related to the sale of certain admixtures that are prohibited. The FSSAI proposed that in the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011, in Regulation 2.1 relating to ?Sale of certain admixtures prohibited, in Sub-regulation 2.1.1, a new clause is added for prohibition of the multi sourced vegetable containing mustard oil.