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New packaging norms under Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2012
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Friday, 02 November, 2012, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d In tune with the announcement by the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution that the new packaging norms – the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2012, under the Legal Metrology Act, 2011 – would come into effect from Nov 1, 2012, a communication issued on Thursday notified the standard sizes for various commodities.
The commodities and specified packaging standards include:
Baby food: 25 gm, 50 gm, 100 gm, 200 gm, 300 gm, 350 gm, 400 gm, 450 gm, 500 gm, 600 gm, 700 gm, 800 gm, 900 gm, 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg.
Weaning food: Below 50 gm no restriction, 50 gm, 100 gm, 200 gm, 300 gm, 400 gm, 500 gm, 600 gm, 700 gm, 800 gm, 900 gm, 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg.
Biscuits: 25 gm, 50 gm, 60 gm, 75 gm, 100 gm, 120 gm, 150 gm, 200 gm, 250 gm, 300 gm, thereafter in multiples of 100 gm up to 1 kg and thereafter in multiples of 500 gm up to 5 kg.
Bread including brown bread but excluding bun: 50 gm and thereafter in of multiples 50 gm upto 500 gm and above 500 gm in the multiples of 100 gm.
Un-canned packages of butter and margarine: Below 25 gm no restriction, 25 gm, 50 gm, 100 gm, 200 gm, 500 gm, 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg, and thereafter in multiples of 5 kg.
Cereals and pulses: Below 100 gm no restriction, 100 gm, 200 gm, 500 gm, 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg and thereafter multiples of 5 kg.
Coffee: Below 25 gm no restriction, 25 gm, 50 gm, 75 gm, 100 gm, 150 gm, 200 gm, 250 gm, 500 gm, 1 kg, 1.5 kg, 2 kg, and thereafter in multiples of 1 kg.
Tea: Below 25 gm no restriction, 25 gm, 50 gm, 100 gm, 125 gm, 250 gm, 500 gm, 1 kg and thereafter in multiples of 1 kg.
Materials which may be constituted or reconstituted as beverages: Below 50 gm no restriction, 50 gm, 75 gm, 100 gm, 200 gm, 250 gm, 400 gm, 450 gm, 500 gm, 750 gm, 1 kg and thereafter in multiples of 1 kg (56 gm and 61 gm for medical purpose only).
Edible oils, vanaspati, ghee, butter oil: 50 gm, 100 gm, 200 gm, 250 gm, 500 gm, 1 kg, 2 kg, 3 kg, 5 kg and thereafter in multiples of 5 kg. If net quantity is declared by volume then 50 ml, 100 ml, 200 ml, 250 ml, 500 ml, 1 litre, 2 litre, 3 litre, 5 litre and thereafter in multiple of 5 litre and the net quantity must be declared by mass also in the same size of letters/ numerals.
Milk powder: Below 50 gm no restriction, 50 gm, 100 gm, 150 gm, 200 gm, 250 gm, 500 gm, 1 kg and thereafter in multiples of 500 gm.
Rice (powdered), flour, atta, rawa and suji: 100 gm, 200 gm, 500 gm, 1 kg, 1.25 kg, 1.5 kg, 1.75 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg, and thereafter in multiples of 5 kg.
Salt: Below 50 gm in multiples of 10 gm, 50 gm, 100 gm, 200 gm, 500 gm, 750 gm, 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg, and thereafter in multiples of 5 kg.
Aerated soft drinks, non-alcoholic beverages: 65 ml (fruit-based drinks only), 100 ml, 125 ml (fruit-based drinks only), 150 ml, 160 ml, 175 ml, 180 ml, 200 ml, 240 ml, 250 ml, 300 ml, 330 ml (in cans only), 350 ml, 400 ml, 475 ml, 500 ml, 600 ml, 750 ml, 1 litre, 1.2 litre, 1.25 litre, 1.5 litre, 1.75 litre, 2 litre, 2.25 litre, 2.5 litre, 3 litre, 4 litre and 5 litre.
Mineral water and drinking water: 100 ml, 150 ml, 200 ml, 250 ml, 300 ml, 500 ml, 750 ml, 1 litre, 1.5 litre, 2 litre, 3 litre, 4 litre, 5 litre and in multiples of 5 litre.
However, non-standard packs which have already been manufactured and packed on or before October 31, 2012, and are ready for sale in different retail outlets, have been exempted from penal action. Controllers of Legal Metrology in all the states and UTs have been asked to ensure strict compliance of the order.
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