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FSSAI Introduces Vegan Logo For Food Products In India

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13th September, 2021

 

The FSSAI drafted ‘Food Safety And Standard (Vegan Food) Regulation, 2021 is big news for the vegan food industry in India! 

 

The definition goes as - “Vegan  Food means those foods or food ingredients that have not made use of any ingredients, additives and processing aids of animal origin including milk and milk products, fish, poultry and meat, egg or egg products, honey or honey bee products, materials of insect origin like silk, dyes, chitin/chitosan etc or ingredients that are clarified using animal-sourced products e.g., bone char used in sugar bleaching, isinglass in clarifying beer etc. 

 

The food products or ingredients to be called VEGAN, shall not have involved animal testing for evaluating the safety of the final product/ingredient; and, shall not contain any animal-derived GMOs or products prepared using an animal-derived gene for manufacturing the ingredients or products.” - FSSAI Vegan Food Regulation, 2021.

 

Read more: In A Historic Move, FSSAI Prepares Draft Rules For Vegan Food

 

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