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FSSAI - India's Food Safety Regulator
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is the country's food regulator, set up in 2008 under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. In September 2026 it proposed that only milk-derived products may be sold as paneer, weeks after drafting fat, sugar and salt cut-offs for school food.
Last updated 26 September 20265 min read
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Added FSSAI's September 2026 draft that reserves the name paneer for milk-derived products: a new clause under Regulation 2.1.1 of its 2011 sales regulations, with products licensed as Analogue in Dairy Context required to drop the word. The card now opens with the regulator itself - set up in 2008 under the 2006 Act, working under the Health Ministry, operational since 5 August 2011 - and keeps the August school-food cut-offs.
- FSSAI
- food safety
- high fat sugar salt
- school food
- Food Safety and Standards Act
- ICMR dietary guidelines
- draft regulations
- added sugar thresholds
- paneer
- Analogue in Dairy Context
- FSS Act 2006
- food labelling
- HFSS foods
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