Food security regulator FSSAI has ordered licensed meals producers and importers to submit quarterly knowledge on rejected and expired meals gadgets via its on-line compliance system FOSCOS to forestall their resale for human consumption. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) directive, issued on December 16, additionally applies to repackers and relabellers.
The new reporting necessities cowl three key areas: amount of merchandise failing inner high quality testing or inspection; quantity of expired or returned merchandise from the meals provide chain; and detailed information of product disposal, together with destruction, public sale, or different use, with particular purchaser and waste disposal company info.
The transfer is aimed toward stopping rebranding and resale of expired and rejected meals gadgets for human consumption underneath the guise of cattle feed.
This initiative will allow real-time monitoring of rejected or expired items and their subsequent disposal or public sale for non-human consumption functions, FSSAI stated.
While the FOSCOS (Food Safety and Compliance System) reporting perform continues to be being developed, the regulator has requested meals companies to start amassing the required knowledge to make sure readiness for submission when the system turns into operational.
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