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On March 28, 2025, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) First Amendment Regulations, 2025, clarifying the rules regarding the use of recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) in food packaging. The amendment came into effect immediately.
The amendment modifies sub-regulation (4)(e) of regulation 4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018, as follows:
Before | After |
(e) Products made of recycled plastics including carry bags may be used for packaging, storing, carrying or dispensing of food products as and when standards and guidelines are framed by the Food Authority. Such packaging materials shall also comply with any other national standards/regulations as applicable. [Operationalized w.e.f. January 18, 2022 vide Direction F.No.STD/SC/A-40 dated January 18, 2022]
| (e) Products made of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) may be used for packaging, storing, carrying or dispensing of food products as and when standards and guidelines are notified by the Food Authority and such packaging materials shall comply with national standards or regulations as applicable to such materials. |
Guidelines for recycling of post-consumer PET for food contact applications, as well as acceptance criteria for recycled PET resin for food contact applications, can be found in the Annex of Direction F.No.STD/SC/A-40.
Introduction of Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations
The Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 vide notification number File No.1-95/Stds/Packaging/SP(L&C/A)/FSSAI-2017, dated the December 24, 2018. Prior to this amendment, it had already been amended twice:
(1) Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) First Amendment Regulations, 2022, notification number F.No. Std/SP-08/A-1.2019/N-01, dated January 25, 2022; and
(2) Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Second Amendment Regulations, 2022, notification number F. No. Std/SP-20/T(Migration-N), dated August 30, 2022.
The consolidated version, including the last two updates, can be downloaded here, but this latest amendment has not yet been included.
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