(1) No artificial
sweetener shall be added to any article of food.
Provided that artificial
sweetener may be used in following food articles in quantities not exceeding the
limits shown against them and shall bear the label declaration as provided in
clauses (1) and (2) of sub-rule (ZZZ) of rule 42.
The following food additives
permitted for use in certain foods shall be sold only under the Indian Standards
Institution Certification marks, namely :-
| 1. | |
Sulphuric acid (Food Grade) |
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2. | |
Sodium propionate (Food Grade) |
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3. | |
Calcium propionate (Food Grade) |
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4. | |
Sorbic acid (Food Grade) |
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5. | |
Potassium metabisulphite (Food Grade) |
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6. | |
Sodium metabisulphite (Food Grade) |
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7. | |
Sorbitol (Food Grade) |
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8. | |
Benzoic acid (Food Grade) |
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9. | |
Sodium benzoate (Food Grade) |
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10. | |
Fumaric acid (Food Grade) and Quick Dissolving Fumaric Acid (Food Grade) |
| 11. | |
Sodium carboxymethy7l cellulose (Food Grade) |
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12. | |
Sodium alginate (Food Grade) |
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13. | |
Agar Agar (Food Grade) |
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14. | |
Agini acid (Food Grade) |
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15. | |
Calcicum alginate (Food Grade) |
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16. | |
Gelatin (Food Grade) |
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17. | |
Ascorbic Acid (Food Grade) |
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18. | |
Butylated Hydroxy Toluene (BHT) (Food Grade) |
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19. | |
Butylated Hydroxy Anisole (BHA) (Food Grade) |
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20. | |
Caramel (Food Grade) |
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21 | | .
Annatto colour (Food Grade) |
Conditions
for Sale.
| 1) |
Every utensil or container used for manufacturing, preparing or containing
any food or ingredient of food intended for sale shall be kept at all times in
good order and repair and in a clean and sanitary condition. No such utensil or
container shall be used for any other purpose. |
| 2) |
No person shall use for manufacturing, preparing or storing any food or ingredient
of food intended for sale any utensil or container which is imperfectly enameled
or imperfectly tinned or which is made of such materials or is in such a state
as to be likely to injure such food or render it noxious. |
| 3) |
Every utensil or container containing any food or ingredient of food intended
for sale shall at all times be either provided with a tight-fitting cover or kept
closed or covered by a properly-fitting lid or by a close fitting cover or gauze
net or other material of a texture sufficiently fine to protect the food completely
from dust, dirt and files and other insects. |
| 4) |
No utensil or container used for the manufacture or preparation of or containing
any food or ingredient of food intended for sale shall be kept in any place in
which such utensil or container is likely by reason of impure air or dust or any
offensive, noxious or deleterious gas or substance or any noxious or injurious
emanations, exhalation, or effluvium, to be contaminated and thereby render the
food noxious.
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| 5) |
An utensil or container made of the following materials or metals when used in
the preparation packaging and storing of food shall be deemed to render it unfit
for human consumption:-
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| (i) |
containers which are rusty; | | (ii) |
enameled containers which have become chipped and rusty ; |
| (iii) |
copper or brass containers which are not properly tinned |
| (iv) |
containers made of aluminum not conforming in chemical composition to IS :
20 [***] specification for Cat Aluminum & Aluminum alloy for untensils or
IS : 21 [***] specification for Wrought Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy for utensils
; and | | (v) |
Containers made of plastic materials not conforming to the following Indian
Standards Specification used as appliances or receptacles for packing or storing
whether partly or wholly food articles namely -
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| (a) | IS
: 10146 [***] (Specification for Polyethylene in contact with foodstuffs) |
| (b) | IS
: 10142 [***](Specification for Styrene Polymers in contact with foodstuffs) |
| (c) | IS
: 10151 [***] (Specification for Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), in contact with foodstuffs)
| | (d) |
IS : 10910[***] (Specification for Polypropylene in contact with foodstuffs) |
| (e) |
IS : 11434 [***] (Specification for Ionomer Resisns in contact with foodstuffs) |
| (f) | IS
: 11704 [***] (Specification for Ethylene Acrylic Acid (EAA) copolymer. |
| (g) |
IS : 12252 [***] (Specification for Polyalkylene terephathalates (PET) |
| (h) |
IS : 12247 [***] (Specification for Nylon 6 Polymer) |
| (i) | IS
: 13601 - Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) | | (j) | IS
: 13576 - Ethylene Metha Acrylic Acid (EMAA)Tin and plastic containers once used
shall not be re-used for packaging of edible oils and fats ;
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| 6) |
No person shall sell compounded asafetida exceeding one kilogram in weight
except in sealed container with a label.
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| 7) |
No person shall sell Hingra without a label on its container upon which is
printed a declaration in the form specified in Rule 42.
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| 8) |
No person shall sell Titanium dioxide (food grade) except under Indian Standers
Institution Certification mark. |
| 9) |
No person shall sell salseed fat for any other purpose except for BAKERY AND
CONFECTIONERY and it shall be refined and shall bear the label declaration as
laid down in rule 42 (T). |
| 10) |
Edible Common salt or iodides salt or iron fortified common salt containing
anticaking agent shall be sold only in a package which shall bear the label as
specified in sub-rule (v) of rule 42.
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| 10A) |
Iron fortified common salt shall be sold only in high density polyethylene
bag (HDPE) 14 mesh, density 100 kg/m3 unlaminated) package which shall bear the
label as specified in sub-rule (VV) of rule 42.
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| 11) |
No person shall sell lactic acid for use in food except under Indian Standards
Institutions Marks.
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| 12) |
The Katheprepared by Bhatti method shall be conspicuously marked as Bhatti
Katha.
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| 13) |
All edible oils, except coconut oil, imported in crude, raw or unrefined from
shall be subjected to the process of refining before sale for human consumption.
Such oils shall bear a label declaration as laid down in rule 42 (W).
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| 14) |
Dried Glucose Syrup containing sulphur-dioxide exceeding 40 ppm shall be sold
only in a package which shall bear the label as specified in sub-rule (X) of rule
42.
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| 15) |
No person shall store, expose for sale or permit the sale of any insecticide
in the same premises where articles of food are stored, manufactured or exposed
for sale.
Provided that nothing in this sub-rule shall apply to the approved
household insecticides which have been registered as such under the Insecticides
Act 1968 (46 of 1968)
Explanation.- For the purpose of this sub-rule, the
word insecticide has the same meaning as assigned to it in the Insecticides Act,
1968 (46 of 1986).
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| 16) |
Condensed milk sweetened, condensed skimmed milk sweetened, milk powder, skimmed
milk powder partly skimmed milk powder and partly skimmed sweetened condensed
milk shall not be sold except under Indian Standards Institutions Certification
Mark.
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| 17) |
No person shall sell mineral oil (food grade for use in confectionery except
under Indian Standards Institution Certification Mark.
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| 18) |
No person shall sell confectionery weighing more than 500 gms. except in packed
condition and confectionery sold in pieces shall be kept in glass or other suitable
containers.
Explanation.- For the purposes of sub-rules (17) and (18) Confectionery,
shall mean sugar boiled confectionery, lozenges and chewing gum and bubble gum.
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| 19) |
No person shall manufacture sell, store or exhibit for sale an infant milk
food, infant formula [and milk cereal based weaning food and processed cereal
based weaning food] except under Bureau of Indian Standards Certification Mark.
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| 20) |
No person shall sell protein rich atta and protein rich maida except in packed
condition mentioning the names of ingredients on the label.
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| 21) |
The Blended Edible Vegetable Oils shall not be sold in loose form. It shall
be sold in sealed packages weighing not more than 5 kg. It shall also not be sold
under the common or generic name of the oil used in the blend but shall be sold
as 'Blended Edible Vegetable Oil. The sealed package shall be sold or offered
for sale only under AGMARK certification mark bearing the label declarations as
provided under Rule 42 and Rule 44 besides other labeling requirements under these
rules.
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| 22) |
Coloured and flavoured [table margarine] shall only be sold is a sealed package
weighing not more than 500 gms with a label declaring addition of colour and flavour
as required under these rules.
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| 23) |
The fat spread shall not be sold in loose form. It shall be sold in sealed
packages weighing not more than 500 gms. The word 'butter' shall not be associated
while labeling the product. The sealed package shall be sold or offered for sale
only under AGMARK Certification mark bearing the label declaration as provided
under rule 42 besides other labeling requirements under these rules.
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| 24) |
No person shall sell powdered spices condiments except under packed conditions.
Explanation :- For the purpose of their sub-rule Spices and Condiments" means
the spices and condiments as specified in Appendix 'B' of Prevention of Food Adulteration
Rules, 1955.
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| 25) |
No person shall sell or serve food in any "commercial establishment"
in plastic articles used in catering and cutlery unless the plastic material used
in catering and cutlery articles, conform to the food grade plastic, specified
in rule 49(5)(v)'
Explanation :- For the purpose of this sub-rule "commercial
establishment" means any establishment, called by whatever name, being run\managed
by any person or by any authority of the Government \Semi-Government or by any
corporate\registered body which deals in the business of selling or serving food".
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| 26) |
Conditions for sale of irradiated food.- All irradiated food shall be sold
in pre packed conditions only. The type of packaging material used for irradiated
food for stock for sale or for exhibition for sale or for storage for sale shall
conform to the requirement of packaging material as per rule 49.
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| 27) |
Every package of cheese (hard), surface treated with Natamyein, shall bear
the label as specified under clause (9) of sub-rule (ZZZ) of rule 42.
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| 28) |
No person shall manufacture, sell or exhibit for sale packaged drinking water
except under the Bureau of Indian Standards Certification Mark.
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| 29) |
No person shall manufacture, sell or exhibit of sale mineral water except under
the Bureau of Indian Standards Certification Mark.
Explanation :- For the
purpose of this rule, the expression mineral water" shall have the same meaning
as assigned to it in item A.32 of Appendix 'B' of these Rules.
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| 30) |
Tin Plate used for the manufacture of tin containers for packaging edible oils
and fats shall conform to the standards of prime grade quality contained in B.I.S
Standards No. 1993 or 13955 or 9025 or 13954 as amended from time to time or in
respect of Tin containers for packaging edible oils and fats shall conform to
IS No. 10325 or 10399 as amended from time to time.
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