FSSAI License , FSSAI Consultancy: Your neighbourhood halwai shop will soon have to declare the manufacturing From 1st June 2020

‘loose’ sweets will carry best-before date From June 1.

Your neighbourhood halwai shop will soon have to declare the manufacturing and best before date of all loose sweets available in his shop. India’s food regulator, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked local mithai and sweet shop owners to display the manufacturing date and the “best before" date on loose sweets sold in their shops in a move that will help ensure that the consumers are purchasing a fresh product.

Shops told to indicate manufacturing and expiry date of non-packaged sweets at display counters; currently rule applies only to packaged sweets .

FSSAI—the food regulator—has asked all mithai shops to use such labelling on the trays that carry loose sweets. “Further, in public interest and to ensure food safety, it has been directed that in case of non-packaged/loose sweets the container or tray holding sweets at the outlet should display the “date of manufacturing" and “best before date" of the said products," the order said. The order, which will be effective 1 June.

An indicative shelf life along with a suggestive logo of various types of sweets has been given in a separate guidance note on milk products issued by the FSSAI.

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Traditional milk-base“Moreover, there are issues of adulteration and use of sub-standard products," the regulator said in the noted. Concerted efforts are needed to ensure food safety of sweets by stakeholders including food businesses, consumers and regulatory authorities, the regulator said.d sweets are generally prepared from khoya, chhena, sugar and other ingredients such as maida, flavours and colours e.g. peda, burfi, milk cake, gulab jamun, rasgulla, rasmalai etc. Sweets have limited shelf life. Sweets particularly those with milk products have lesser shelf life and are more prone to microbial growth. Therefore sanitation and hygiene in their preparation and consumption within shelf life is of utmost importance," according to the guidance note.

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“Moreover, there are issues of adulteration and use of sub-standard products," the regulator said in the noted. Concerted efforts are needed to ensure food safety of sweets by stakeholders including food businesses, consumers and regulatory authorities, the regulator said."