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Food Safety

Food Safety Helpline answered the

following queries raised on its platform

By Sumedha Jalgaonkar*

What does “Blue” dot mark (on food products) for Special Dietary Use, Food for Special Medical
stand for? Purpose, Functional Food and Novel Food) Regulations,
2016 to check if your food product complies with the
As per Food Safety & Standards (Packaging & Labelling) requirements of the standards. For registration of
Regulations, 2011; Green & Brown symbols need to be your product, please refer the following link for online
printed on the labels of Veg & Non-Veg Food articles licensing: https://foodlicensing.fssai.gov.in/index.
respectively. The blue symbol has not been discussed aspx#
and it does not hold any relevance to the labels of the
food products. I intend to start manufacturing the user
customized meal replacement shakes having

Is there any clarification on skimmed milk different nutritional content for each customer,
powder treated as proprietary food as per FSSAI? though the ingredients will be same but the
percentage composition might differ from customer
It is a Standardized food and not a proprietary food. to customer. In such a scenario it is not practically
Please see: Regulation 2.1.2 (1) (c) under FSS (Food possible to have the customized food tested for each
Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, customer. I have a standard composition tested.
2011. As per Regulation 2.12 of the said regulations, the What is the best way in such a scenario?

proprietary food is defined as; “Proprietary food means
an article of food that has not been standardised under You need to ensure that only standardized ingredients
these regulations, but does not include novel foods, including additives should be used. Also, ensure that
foods for special dietary uses, foods for special medical those ingredients should be permitted to be used in
purposes, functional foods, nutraceuticals, health the said food product. As per FSSAI regulations, you
supplements and such other food articles which the are also responsible for testing of all ingredients & the
Central Government may notify in this behalf.” final product on chemical and biological parameters

from a NABL Accredited/FSSAI notifi ed laboratory
You can further read on Proprietary food: FSSAI to ensure that they are free from contamination &
Clarifies on Proprietary Food adulteration for the recommended parameters.

I want to enter into the market of India with Is there any test for the detection of the quantity
dietary supplement, what should I do to register this of Sodium Chloride present in milk?
product?
The presence of extraneously added Sodium Chloride
Please refer FSSAI regulation; Food Safety and in milk can be detected by silver nitrate & potassium
Standards (Health Supplements, Nutraceuticals, Food chromate reagent. For more details on the same, please

Food Marketing & Technology 10 September 2020