Regulations1. Shor title and commencement. -(1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards
(Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2016.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, in
regulations 2.12 relating to ‘Proprietary Food’, for the sub-regulations 2.12.1, the following shall be
substituted, namely: -
“2.12.1: For the purpose of these regulations, -
(1) Proprietary food means an article of food that has not been standardized under these regulations, but
does not include any novel food, food for special dietary use, functional food, nutraceutical, health
supplement and such other articles of food which the Central Government may notify in this behalf.
(2) Proprietary food shall contain only those ingredients other than additives which are either
standardised in these Regulations or permitted for use in the preparation of other standardised food
under these Regulations.
(3) Proprietary food shall use only such additives as specified for the Category to which the food belongs
and such category shall be clearly mentioned on the label along with its name, nature and
composition.
(4) Proprietary food product shall comply with the food additives provisions as prescribed in Appendix A
and the microbiological specifications as prescribed in Appendix B of these Regulations and all other
Regulations made under this Act.
(5) The Food Business Operator shall be fully responsible for the safety of the proprietary food.”
PAWAN AGARWAL, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT-III/4/Exty./329]
