The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006

This 2025 edition of The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (Act 34 of 2006) reproduces the parent statute verbatim, updated to 1-5-2025, and incorporates the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 (18 of 2023, w.e.f. 11-8-2023) that de-criminalises minor labelling lapses and introduces graded monetary penalties.

Bundled are the complete FSSAI Rules & Regulations—Packaging & Labelling, Food Additives, Organic, Nutraceuticals, GM Food draft, E-commerce Compliance—plus an exhaustive Commodity-wise Index. Concise short comments flag 2024 Front-of-Pack labelling logo, risk-based inspection algorithm, revamped FoSCoS e-licensing and AI-driven surveillance—while preserving full Bare-Act integrity.

Core statutory coverage

• Licensing & registration — FoSCoS portal, dairy clustering, petty food-business exemption.

• Standards & limits — contaminants, additives, novel-food approvals, nutraceutical RDA caps.

• Recall & traceability — nine-step voluntary/mandatory recall, batch coding, digital trace chain.

• Imports & e-commerce — ICEGATE interface, e-marketplace seller compliance, non-retail sample testing.

• Enforcement & penalties — adjudicating officer, compounding (Jan Vishwas slabs), graded administrative fines.

This edition is particularly suited for

• Food manufacturers, cloud-kitchens & exporters filing licences or product approvals.

• QC managers, laboratories & auditors performing FoSTaC and GMP checks.

• FSSAI inspectors, Designated Officers & adjudicating officers.

• Consumer NGOs, nutritionists and public-health researchers.

• AIBE candidates and law students taking food-safety electives.