India: India's FSSAI Extends Implementation Date of the Labeling Provisions of Four Regulations - Including of the Labeling and Display

On October 22, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published Direction F. No. REF/L&D-Extension/FSSAI-2021, extending the implementation date for Food Safety and Standards (Labeling and Display) Regulations (2020), as well as for three other regulations. The others included are the (i) Food Products Standards and Food Additives; (ii) Health Supplements, Nutraceuticals, Food for Special Dietary Use, Food for Special Medical Purpose, Functional Foods, and Novel Foods; and (iii) Infant Nutrition foods regulations. The FSSAI direction establishes for the four regulations a new implementation date of July 1, 2022. The timeline relaxation applies only to the labeling provisions of the regulations.