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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

Published on Feb 19, 2025

By EMN

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  • 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.