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FSSAI issues order listing labs for testing of fortificants in rice, rice kernel
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Monday, 30 October, 2023, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Food Authority has issued an order listing the notified laboratories for testing of fortificants in fortified rice, fortified rice kernel and premix for fortified rice kernel.
A total of 66 labs were notified across the country in which 42 labs were for testing fortificants including iron, vitamin B12, and vitamin B9 in fortified rice, 17 for testing fortificants in fortified rice kernels, and seven labs were notified for testing fortificants in premix for fortified rice kernels.
FSSAI has recently re-operationalised the regulations related to standards of fortified rice kernel proposed under the draft FSS (Food Products and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations.
The standards were formed under the national level fortification programme and its implementation wherein the provisions for Fortified Rice Kernel, Vitamin and Mineral Premixes for fortified rice kernel and rice flour were re-operationalised.
The draft was notified in May 2022 and the draft standards were made operational through a direction in June ’22 and subsequently re-operationalised through notification in December ’22, and April ’23.
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