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FSSAI to bring pan masala under the ambit of FSS Act completely
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Friday, 06 May, 2022, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The FSSAI has decided to bring pan masala under the ambit of FSS Act completely and in this regard issued a draft called Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2022, seeking comments from the stakeholders.
Under this amendment, pan masala will be added as a food category for which the food businesses need to get FSSAI licence or registration for manufacturing.
The proposed amendment says that in the food product standards and additive regulations, in Chapter 3, in Appendix A, under the heading “II. Food Category Descriptions” in the description of the food category system “15.2 processed nuts, including coated nuts and nuts mixtures”, at the end of the paragraph the following shall be inserted, namely. - “This category also includes pan masala and arecanut based mouth fresheners”.
Also, the amendment proposed that ‘No synthetic food colour permitted in pan masala and arecanut based mouth fresheners’.
Further, food category 15.2, processed nuts including coated nuts and nuts mixtures (only pan masala and arecanut based mouth fresheners), is asked to follow the GMP under the proposed amendment.
Meanwhile, the issue related to pan masala has been in contention for past few years with questions on whether The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 or COTPA, or FSS Act, govern these products.
The FSSAI has been issuing direction to regulate pan masala and as per the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sale) Regulations 2011, under the Prohibition and Restriction on sale of certain products clause it is stipulated, “Product not to contain any substance which may be injurious to health. Tobacco and nicotine shall not be used as ingredients in any food product.”
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