Infant Food

FSSAI: Letter Regarding Licensing of Infant Food Other than those Specified in Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 and their compliance The manufacturing and sale of infant formula is a big business. Infant Formula marketing is widespread and uses powerful emotional advertising to sell parents, sometimes a vastly inferior […]

FSSAI Issues Advisory for Strict Compliance of Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Food as per the IMS Act Rapid lifestyle changes with urbanization and high craze for quality baby food products encourage consumers to opt for baby food substitutes in this era. These days parenting concerns are growing, and panic is increasing for […]

There are certain special medical conditions like hypoallergenic conditions and inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) which require speciality foods for their management. Although these speciality foods to help manage such conditions in infants and children are required in hospitals, they are not easily available in India. These speciality foods are available worldwide; however, the absence […]

FSSAI proposed a draft related to standards of foods for infant nutrition through a notification dated 27th December 2017. This draft describes in detail the regulations to be followed by different categories of infant foods. Although each category of Infant Food has different specifications, some generalised requirements are applied to almost all of them. These requirements […]

Baby foods are of great help to every new mother. These are easy to prepare and give complete nutrition to the baby. But their production, packaging, and labelling needs thorough care and evaluation as FSSAI has strict regulations for approval of baby foods. The proposed draft of the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant […]