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Printing 'Best before date' on sweets must from Oct 1
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SME Times News Bureau | 28 Sep, 2020
While buying sweets, you must now check the 'Best before date' as it has
been made compulsory for the sweetmakers to mention it on the product.
The new norm will be in force from October 1.
It means the shopkeeper has to inform the customer that till what date the dessert will remain edible.
However,
it will not be mandatory to write the date of manufacture of the
product, as the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has
left it to the will of the manufacturers. Federation of Sweets and
Namkeen Manufactures (FSNM) director Feroze Naqvi said that this has
brought great relief to the confectioners, but will also face
difficulties in writing 'Best before date' as it is not practical.
In
a September 25 order, the FSSAI has made it mandatory from October 1 to
write 'Best before date' on sweets plates in shops for the open sale of
sweets, but there will be no restriction on the date for making sweets.
The FSSAI has stated in the order that it would be optional to write
the date of making.
Naqvi told IANS over phone from Mumbai,
"FSSAI has accepted half of our point that it is no longer mandatory for
us to write a manufacturing date. However, the best before date will be
effective from October 1. However, we are also in talks on this. We
have put our problems in front of the FSSAI."
He said that
printing the best before date for sweets is not practical as there is a
large range of sweets on which it would be difficult to change the date
repeatedly. He said that the order regarding the open sale of sweets
came in February, which was extended twice in the coronavirus period,
but now from October 1, it has been made mandatory to write the best
before date on sweets packs.
This order of FSSAI is only for the
open sale of sweets. Naqvi said that this order will be applicable for
unpacked sweets whereas for food items like packaged sweets, namkeen, it
is mandatory to write the period of manufacture and the date till it is
best for the consumption.
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