Department of Health & Family Welfare informs on packaged drinking water
Department of Health and Family Welfare has informed that some regulations under Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011 has been amended and has come into force
- DIMAPUR — The
Department of Health and Family Welfare has informed that some regulations under Food
Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011
has been amended and has come into force.
- Under the regulation 2.3, sub-regulation 2.3.14, clause 17
and 18, it mentioned that “No person shall manufacture, sell or exhibit for
sale packaged drinking water and mineral water except under the Bureau of
Indian Standards (BIS) certification mark.”
- It stated that clauses 17 and 18 have been omitted.
Therefore, food business operators (FBO) manufacturing water does not need to
obtain BIS certification mark. However, they would have to mandatorily obtain
food safety license certificate through the online portal
https://foscos.fssai.gov.in.
- It added that water test report should be a mandatory
document and the water needs to be tested in one of the food safety and
standards authority of India notified laboratory having the scope of testing
packaged drinking water and mineral water.
- It stated that the bottle of the packaged drinking water
should be legibly marked with details including name of the product, name and
address of the manufacturer, brand name (if any), lot/ batch number, date of
processing/ packaging, best before date and FSSAI logo and license/
registration certificate number.
- For further assistance, the concerned are asked to visit the
Food Safety Section of the respective chief medical office in Kohima,
Mokokchung and Dimapur.
- It further warned that failure to comply with the
notification would be a violation of Section 58 and 63 of FSSA 2006.
