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FBOs shall comply with breakfast cereals norms and parameters by Jan 1: FSSAI
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Friday, 26 March, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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Under the recently notified Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) First Amendment Regulations, 2021, the FSSAI has made regulations for breakfast cereals and laid parameters such products need to conform with.
The FBOs (Food Business Operators) were asked to comply with these provisions by January 1, 2022.
According to the notified regulation, breakfast cereal refers to ready-to-eat and quick or regular cooking cereal products. Examples include: puffed, powdered, flaked, cereals or grains, multi-grain (e.g. rice, wheat, oats, millets, barley, pulses, corn and so on) breakfast cereals, ready-to-eat or -cook cereal products made from soy or edible bran, granola-type breakfast cereals, cereal bars, muesli and extruded-type breakfast cereals made from grain flour or powder or meals.
This category also includes ready-to-eat or instant cooking broken or flattened cereals sold as porridge, the notification says.
On its preparation, the notification says that breakfast cereals can be prepared by one or more methods involving cooking, frying, flaking, baking, roasting, puffing, pearling and extruding or co -extruding and so on with chocolate, fruit, vegetables, nuts or any other such nutritious fillings in sweet or savoury taste.
Breakfast cereals can also be prepared from one or more of milled/whole grains and it can be mixed with the products of one or more of legumes, seeds, edible tubers or pseudo-cereals with or without addition of suitable flavouring agents, spices or spice extracts, seasonings, malt derivatives, nutritive and natural sweeteners, salt, dried or candied fruits, fruit solids/ extracts or concentrates, vegetables and their dried formats or extracts, nuts, cocoa and its products, maltodextrin, milk and its derivatives and any other ingredients as specified in Food Safety and Standards Regulations, 2011.
The notification further lays that in case of wholegrain breakfast cereal minimum amount of whole grain shall be 25% on dry weight basis. The product shall contain cereals/pseudo cereals/grains when taken together as the first ingredient in the ingredient list.
And the grains and other ingredients used in the processing of breakfast cereals shall be of good quality and shall possess a characteristic taste and odour.
The parameters for breakfast cereals include not more than 7.5% moisture content (% by mass), while for products containing dehydrated or candied fruits, seeds, nuts, whole grains and so on –10.0% and the acid insoluble ash in dilute HCI should not be more than 0.1%.
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