India publishes draft Food Safety and Standards (Safe food and Healthy diets for School Children) Regulations, 2019

A healthy food make our kids feel better, grow better and learn better and right eating habits can be engrained in the children from a young age. With the aim to ensure safe and wholesome food for school children, FSSAI has proposed a draft regulation titled Food Safety and Standards (Safe Food and healthy diets for School Children) Regulations, 2019. At the heart of these regulations is a central idea to make clear what is healthy for children and what is not.

Pre-draft of these regulations were also notified to the WTO on 2 March 2018 vide G/SPS/N/IND/205, in which some modifications have been made and hence it is proposed to notify the modified draft to WTO Member countries.

Products covered: Food for school children

HS Codes: 02, 03, 04, 0504, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24

Proposed date of adoption:  Yet to be decided

Proposed date of entry into force:  Yet to be decided

Final date for comments: They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

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