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FSSAI to operationalise regulations with respect to honey pollen count
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Monday, 18 November, 2019, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country’s apex regulator, has decided to operationalise the regulations with respect to the pollen count and plant elements for honey.
It earlier issued a draft notification in this regard, specifying the parameters for the pollen count.
FSSAI issued a notice in this regard, stating, “It has been decided to operationalise these regulations with immediate effect.”
Shobhit Jain, executive director, compliance strategy, FSSAI, said, “The draft regulations are in the process of being notified, and the process of draft notification, consideration of comments, if any that may be received thereon, and the finalisation of these regulations is likely to take some more time.”
“Meanwhile, to address the issue of food business operators (FBOs) to comply with the present standards of honey with respect to the said parameters, it has been decided to operatonalise these regulations with immediate effect,” he added.
The Draft Regulations were called the Food Safety Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Amendment Regulations, 2019. Under this amendment, for Regulations 2.8 for sweetening agents including honey, the parameters and corresponding entries at Serial Number 12 shall be substituted with, “The minimum pollen count and plant elements/g will be 5,000.”
According to the apex regulator, honey has been a target of adulteration through artificial colours and sugars. Through this amendment notification, the existing standards of honey has been revised to include several new quality parameters, which address the issues concerning quality and purity of the product and also to curb rampant adulteration in honey.
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