The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has withdrawn its order to declare ‘Best Before date’ on non-packaged loose sweets. The FSSAI order dated September 25 2020, mandated loose sweets to declare ‘best before date’, which was withdrawn on November 7.
FSSAI said that considering that the Food Safety Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 2011 have been superseded by the Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations 2020, the said directive has been reviewed. It said that the same requires further deliberations by the concerned scientific panel regarding the declaration of date marking on non-packaged or loose food products.
However, food business operators may declare ‘Best Before Date’ on non-packaged sweet or loose sweet containers on a voluntary or optional basis.
