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High-risk foods to enter India only from 61 ports managed by FSSAI
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Thursday, 20 October, 2022, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The FSSAI has decided to restrict the entry of high-risk food products and specify 61 ports of entry from where these products will be allowed to enter into India. These ports of entry are directly manned and managed by the FSSAI.
The high risk food products include milk & milk products, egg powder, meat & meat products including poultry, fish & their products, food for infant nutrition/infant food, and nutraceuticals, health supplements, food for dietary uses, probiotic and prebiotic foods, & food for special medical purpose.
The FSSAI has issued an order in this regard stating that to regulate and ensure the safety of food being imported in the country and to envisage a robust import control system ensuring efficient monitoring and traceability of high risk products, "it has been decided that import of high risk food products as specified shall be permitted through 61 ports only which are directly manned and managed by FSSAI office/officials."
The order added that to further facilitate ease of doing business while ensuring the mandate of safe food imports in India, comments/suggestions are invited from all the stakeholders in this regard within 30 days from the date of publication of this order, i.e., from October 17, 2022.
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