Milk and Milk
Products Standards Revised – Effective from 1 July 2018
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Camel Milk, Lassi Included in Enlarged List
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Note dated 24.10.2017
Revised
Standards for Milk and Milk Products
The FSSAI has notified the FSS (Prohibition
and Restrictions on sales) Amendment Regulations, 2017 regarding certain
restriction on sale of cream and FSS (Food products Standards and Food
Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2017 regarding revised standards for milk and
milk products.
These standards are being introduced to
widen the scope of existing standards for milk and other dairy products in Food
Safety and Standards Regulations, 2011. The purpose of these standards in
particular is to redefine the dairy product in more comprehensive manner
inclusive of all the relevant provisions in accordance with the international
practices.
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Salient Features of these
standards:
1. Redefines Milk and Milk Products in more comprehensive manner to
cover all the conventional and non-conventional milk products keeping in view
the global standards.
2. Introduce new standards for camel milk, dairy whitener, edible
lactose, flavoured dahi,
fermented milk drinks (lassi
etc.) and revised standards for cow milk (uniform throughout the
Country).
3. Specifies new general standards for milk and milk products which
includes definition and types of milk products, definitions of heat treatments,
conditions for naming of dairy products and some general labelling provisions.
4. Introducing provisions of adding micronutrients, probiotics and
prebiotics as well as enzymes in dairy products.
Both the above mentioned regulations will
come into force from the date of their publication in the official gazette.
However, the Food Business Operators shall comply with all the provisions of
Food Safety and Standards (Food products Standards and Food Additives)
Amendment Regulations, 2017 regarding revised standards for milk and milk
products by 1st July, 2018.