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THE PUNJAB
PURE FOOD RULES, 2007
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THE PUNJAB PURE FOOD RULES, 2007
FRAMED
UNDER THE PUNJAB PURE FOOD ORDINANCE, 1960
(W. P. Ordinance VII of 1960)
CONTENTS
Rule No. Subject. Page

Part I
1. Short title and commencement. 13
2. Definitions. 15
3. Warranty 17
Part II
4. Food additives. 18
5. Colouring matters in Food. 20
6. Preservatives in food, Use of Preservatives for the purpose of Analysis. 21
7. Flavouring compounds and agents in food 23
8. Antioxidants in food 25
9. Food conditioners, Stabilizers in food 36
10. Non-nutritive constituents and Artificial sweetening agents in food 43
11. Unsound food and food injurious to health / Incidental constituents 56
12. Standards of nature, substance or quality of foods. 61
Part III
13. Mode of labeling of pre-packed food. 62
14. Requirements as to the sale of pre-packed food otherwise than by retail. 63
15. Special requirements where presence of vitamins or minerals, essential Amino 64
acids, essential fatty acids claimed.
16. Exemption from labelling of food. 66
17. Defacing of labels. 66
18. Labelling of milk and milk products 66
Part IV
19. Manner in which articles of food may be manufactured, sold or kept for sale. 74
20. Special provisions for milk and dairy produce. 75
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21. Restrictions on the employment of person suffering from communicable 76
disease.
22. Special condition for the manufacture of pasteurized / sterilized//UHT milk. 76
23. Conditions for approval Pasteurisation/ sterilisation/UHT plants. 77
24. Mode of marking of packages containing Banaspati, refined vegetable 77
Oil/refined vegetable oil, margarine or fat spread, animal fat (Halal)
25. Prohibition of sale of food articles. 79
26. Offences by companies. 80
Rule No. Subject. Page

Part V
27. Licensing of food trades business and premises. 82
28. Licences. 82
29. Special conditions for butter, ghee, cream or khoa factory. 84
30. Special condition for banaspati, vegetable oil, margarine, charbi and Animal fat 85
(Halal)
31. Special condition for all licensed premises. 85
32. Form of register for the purpose of section 12. 85
Part VI
33. Prevention of food poisoning 87
34. Power to deal with person engaged in food business suffering from 87
Communicable diseases
Part VII
35. Appointment of Public Analyst. 88
36. Duties of Public Analyst. 88
37. Duties of Food Authority 88
38. Appointment of Food Inspector 88
39. Powers of Food Inspector 89
40. Duties of Food Inspector 89
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41. Fees for Analysis. 90
Part VIII
42. Procedure for seizure of unsound food. 91
43. Form of order not to dispose of stock 91
44. Form of receipt for food seized by an Food Inspector 91
45. Hours during which a Food Inspector may enter into and inspect places Used 91
for the sale of food
46. Method of taking sample 91
47. Packing of samples of food for analysis. 91
48. Quantity of sample. 92
49. The Punjab Pure Food Rules, 1965 is repealed 92
Appendix I to Rule 12 Turbidity test 93

Appendix II to Rule 12 Standards of nature, substance or quality of food 93
Milk and Milk Products.
12.1.01 Milk 93
12.1.02 Milk Product 94

12.1.03 Homogenized milk 94
12.1.04 Pasteurisation, pasteurized. 94
12.1.05 Sterilisation, sterilized. 94
12.1.06 Ultra High Temperature milk or UHT milk. 94
12.1.07 Cow’s milk 94
12.1.08 Buffalo’s milk. 94
12.1.09 Goat’s milk. 94
12.1.010 Sheep’s milk. 94
12.1.011 Camel’s milk. 94
12.1.012 Standardised milk. 94
12.1.013 Skimmed (Separated ) milk. 94
12.1.014 (i) Milk. 94
(ii) Mixed milk. 95
12.1.015 Condensed milk (Evaporated) Un-sweetened. 95

12.1.016 Condensed milk (Evaporated) Sweetened. 95
12.1.017 Condensed skimmed milk (Evaporated skimmed milk) Unsweetened. 95
12.1.018 Condensed skimmed milk (Evaporated skimmed milk) sweetened 95
12.1.019 Flavoured milk. 96
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12.1.020 (i)Reconstituted/Recombined milk. 96
(ii) Liquid milk for making tea / Liquid tea whitener 96
(iii) Dried milk powder for making tea/ dried tea whitener 96
12.1.021 Cream / Raw Cream 97
12.1.022 Homogenized / Pasteurized / Sterilized / UHT Cream. 96
12.1.023 Khoa. 97
12.1.024 Barfi, pera, kalakand. 97
12.1.025 Dried milk, milk powder or whole milk powder. 97
12.1.25 (a) Whey powder 97
12.1.026 Partly skimmed milk powder. 98
12.1.027 Dried skimmed milk or Non-fat skimmed dry milk solids or
Skimmed milk powder. 98
12.1.028 Dahi or Curd. 99
12.1.029 Skimmed milk dahi or curd. 98
12.1.030 Cheese (Hard) 99
12.1.031 Processed cheese. 99
(a) Mozzarella Cheese 99
(b) Feta Cheese 99
12.1.032 Processed cheese spread. 99
12.1.033 Cottage cheese. 100
12.1.034 Un-named cheese. 99
12.1.035 Ice cream, fruit ice cream, sunde ice cream, malai-ki-baraf,
khoa-ki-baraf, malai-ki-kulfi, khoa-ki-kulfi, milk kulfi, kulfa,
cone ice cream. 99
12.1.036 Frozen desserts 100
12.1.037 Desi Ghee. 101
12.1.038 Butter. 101
12.1.039 Milk fat, butter oil, anhydrous milk fat and anhydrous butter oil. 102
12.1.040 Yogurt. 102
12.1.041 Skimmed milk yogurt or Non-fat yogurt. 102
12.1.042 Fruit yogurt. 102
12.1.043 . Infant Formula 102
12.1.044 . Infant Food 105
12.1.045 Infant milk formula. 105
12.2 Edible Oils, Fats (Halal) And Allied Products.
12.2.46 Edible oil and fat. 106

12.2.47 Refined blended vegetable oil. 106
12.2.48 Cotton seed oil, Binola ka tel. 106
12.2.49 Groundnut Oil, Mong Phali ka Tel 107
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12.2.50 Til Oil or Sesame Oil 108
12.2.51 Olive Oil 109
12.2.52 Poppy Seed Oil 109
12.2.53 Coconut Oil, Naryal Ka Tel 110
12.2.54 Sarson Ka tel, Toria Ka tel , Rapeseed Oil, Mustard Oil, Rai Ka tel 110
12.2.55 Refined Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed / Mustard Oil (Canola Oil) 111
12.2.56 Linseed oil, Alsi ka tel 112
12.2.57 Sunflower Oil 112
12.2.58 Refined Sunflower oil 113
12.2.59 Taramira oil 114
12.2.60 Almond Oil or Badam Roghan 114
12.2.61 Soyabean Oil. 115
12.2.62 Refined Soyabean Oil. 115
12.2.63 Banaspati, Vananpati. 116
12.2.64 Refined Palm oil. 116
12.2.65 Rfined Palmein. 117
12.2.66 Niger Seed Oil, (Sagiya ka tel). 118
12.2.67 Safflower Seed Oil (barrey ka tel). 118
12.2.68 Maize oil (Corn). 119
12.2.69 Refined Maize (Corn) oil. 119
12.2.70 Margarine. 120
12.2.71 Animal Fat (Halal). 121
12.3 Baverages.
12.3.72 Tea. 122
12.3.73 Coffee 122
12.3.74 Green Coffee, raw coffee, unroasted coffee. 122
12.3.75 Roasted coffee, coffee. 122
12.3.76 Ground coffee. 122
12.3.77 Coffee Chicory mixture. 122
12.3.78 Liquid coffee essence. 122
12.3.79 Instant coffee or Soluble coffee. 122
12.3.80 Instant coffee chicory mixture. 123
12.3.81 Coffee mixture. 123
12.3.82 Coffee and chicory essence. 123
12.3.83 Cocoa bean. 123
12.3.84 Cocoa Nib or cracked cocoa. 124
12.3.85 Cocoa paste, cocoa mass, cocoa slab or cocoa liquor. 124
12.3.86 Cocoa butter. 124
12.3.87 Cocoa or cocoa powder or soluble cocoa. 124
12.3.88 Chocolate. 124
12.3.89 Milk chocolate. 124
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12.3.90 Chocolate confectionery. 125
12.3.91 Aerated water, or carbonated water. 125
12.3.92 Soda water. 125
12.4 Sweetening Agents.
12.4.93 Refined sugar. 126
12.4.94 Desi sugar. 126
12.4.95 Gur/shakar. 126
12.4.96 Honey. 126
12.4.97 Liquid glucose/corn syrup/glucose syrup. 126
12.4.98 Cane molasses. 127
12.4.99 Batasha/makhana. 127
12.4.100 Misri. 127
12.4.101 Dextrose monohydrate. 127
12.4.102 Cube sugar. 127
12.4.103 Icing sugar. 127
12.4.104 Dried glucose syrup. 127
12.4.105 Ice confection. 127
12.4.106 Ice lollies or edible ice. 127
12.4.107 Ice candy. 128
12.4.108 Golden syrup. 128
12.4.109 Fructose. 128
12.4.110 High fructose/ glucose syrup. 128
12.4.111 Sugar boiled confectionery. 128
12.4.112 Lozenges. 129
12.4.113 Chewing gum and bubble gums. 129
12.4.114 Dextrose anhydrous. 129
12.4.115 Lactose. 129
12.4.116 Dextrose powder (Icing dextrose). 130
12.5 Food Grains, Cereals And Cereal Products.
12.5.117 Food grains. 131
12.5.118 Wheat. 132
12.5.119 Maize. 132
12.5.120 Jawar (Sorghum) and Bajra (millets). 132
12.5.121 Rice. 132
12.5.122 Masur whole. 132
12.5.123 Mash whole. 132
12.5.124 Moong whole. 133
12.5.125 Chana whole. 133
12.5.126 Split pulse (dal) Arhar (Mash). 133
12.5.127 Split pulse (dal) Moong. 133
12.5.128 Dal chana. 133
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12.5.129 Split pulse (dal) Masur. 134
12.5.130 Atta. 134
12.5.131 Fortified atta. 134
12.5.132 Maida. 134
12.5.133 Fortified maida. 134
12.5.134 Suji, Semolina. 134
12.5.135 Besan, Vesan, Gram flour. 134
12.5.136 Prepacked cereal food. 135
12.5.137 Bread. 135
12.5.138 Biscuits. 136
12.5.139 Prepared cake mixes. 137
12.5.140 Pasta products. 137
12.5.141 Baking powder. 137
12.5.142 Malt. 137
12.5.143 Malt extract. 138
12.5.144 Bakers’ malt extract, commercial malt extract or bakers’ maltose. 138
12.5.145 Malted milk food. 138
Starchy Foods.
12.5.146 Arrowroot starch. 138
12.5.147 Sago, Sagudana, Sabudana. 139
12.5.148 Corn flour. 139
12.5.149 Corn flakes. 139
12.5.150 Rice flour or ground flour. 139
12.5.151 Pearl barley. 139
12.5.152 Whole meal barley powder. 140
12.5.153 Custard powder. 140
12.5.154 Cereal_ based food for infants and children. 140
12.6 Spice
12.6.155 Spice. 143
12.6.156 Haldi or turmeric (whole). 143
12.6.157 Haldi or turmeric powder. 143
12.6.158 Zeera siah, Cumin (whole). 143
12.6.159 Zeera siah, Cumin powder. 143
12.6.160 Zeera sufaid, whole. 143
12.6.161 Zeera sufaid powder. 144
12.6.162 Dhania or Coriander (whole). 144
12.6.163 Dhania or Coriander powder. 144
12.6.164 Ajwain. 144
12.6.165 Mirch or Lal mirch or chillies (whole). 144
12.6.166 Mirch or Lal mirch or chillies powder. 144
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12.6.167 Kali mirch or Gol mirch, pepper or black pepper (whole). 144
12.6.168 Kali mirch or Gol mirch, pepper or black pepper powder. 144
12.6.169 White pepper (whole). 145
12.6.170 White pepper powder. 145
12.6.171 Saunf or Fennel fruit (whole). 145
12.6.172 Saunf or Fennel fruit powder. 145
12.6.173 Methi or Fenugreek (whole). 145
12.6.174 Methi or Fenugreek powder. 145
12.6.175 Jaifal or nutmeg (whole). 146
12.6.176 Jaifal or nutmeg powder. 146
12.6.177 Javitri or Mace (whole). 146
12.6.178 Javitri or Mace powder. 146
12.6.179 Dar chini or cinnamon (whole). 146
12.6.180 Dar chini or cinnamon powder. 146
12.6.181 Laung or cloves (whole). 146
12.6.182 Laung or cloves powder. 147
12.6.183 Jinger (sonth, adrak) (whole). 147
12.6.184 Ginger (sonth, adrak) powder. 147
12.6.185 Illaichi, chhoti ilaichi, Cardamom or lesser cardamom (whole). 147
12.6.186 Illaichi, chhoti ilaichi, Cardamom or lesser cardamom powder. 147
12.6.187 Illaichi, chhoti ilaichi, Cardamom or lesser cardamom (seeds) 147
12.6.188 Bari Illaichi, greater Cardamom (whole). 147
12.6.189 Bari Illaichi, greater Cardamom powder. 147
12.6.190 Bari Illaichi, greater Cardamom (seeds). 148
12.6.191 Sowa or aniseed (whole). 148
12.6.192 Zafran or Kesar or Saffron. 148
12.6.193 Khash-khash or popy seed. 148
12.6.194 Mustard (rai, sarson) whole. 148
12.6.195 Mustard or compound mustard or mustard condiment or mustard powder. 148
12.6.196 Curry powder. 148
12.6.197 Garam masalla (whole). 149
12.6.198 Garam masalla powder. 149
12.6.199 Pimento. 149
12.6.200 Dill seed. 149
12.6.201 Asafoetida (hing or Higra). 149
12.6.202 Dried mango slices. 150
12.6.203 Dried mango powder (amchur). 150
12.6.204 Kalonji whole. 150
12.6.205 Kalonji powder. 150
12.7 Fruit and Vegetable Products.
Fruit and Fruit Products.
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12.7.206 Raw fruit or Fresh fruit. 151
12.7.207 Dried fruit. 151
12.7.208 Mixed dried fruit. 151
12.7.209 Fruit products. 151
12.7.210 Dried salted fruit. 151
12.7.211 Canned fruit. 151
12.7.212 Canned fruit cocktail. 151
12.7.213 Fruit juice. 151
12.7.214 Apple juice. 152
12.7.215 Grape fruit juice. 152
12.7.216 Lemon juice. 152
12.7.217 Lime juice. 152
12.7.218 Orange juice. 152
12.7.219 Pineapple juice. 152
12.7.220 Particular labeling requirements of fruit juice. 153
12.7.221 Fruit syrup. 153
12.7.222 Fruit squash. 153
12.7.223 Flavoured syrup or flavoured cordial. 153
12.7.224 Fruit juice drink. 153
12.7.225 Fruit beverage or fruit drink or fruit crush. 154
12.7.226 Flavoured drink. 154
12.7.227 Flavoured syrup, synthetic syrup. 154
12.7.228 Jam. 155
12.7.229 Fruit jelly. 155
12.7.230 Marmalade. 155
12.7.231 Fruit chutney. 155

Vegetable and vegetable products.
12.7.232 Vegetable. 156
12.7.233 Fresh vegetable. 156
12.7.234 Dried or dehydrated vegetable. 156
12.7.235 Frozen vegetable. 156
12.7.236 Vegetable product. 156
12.7.237 Tomato paste or tomato puree. 156
12.7.238 Vegetable juice. 156
12.7.239 Tomato juice. 156
12.7.240 Bottled or canned vegetables. 156
12.7.241 Soup. 157
12.7.242 Soup stock. 157
12.7.243 Salad dressing. 157
12.7.244 Mayonnaise. 157
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12.7.245 Nut. 157
12.7.246 Desiccated coconut. 157
12.7.247 Peanut butter. 158
12.7.248 Fruit and vegetable preserve (Morabba). 158
12.7.249 Vinegar or sirka. 158
12.7.250 Synthetic vinegar. 158
12.7.251 Pickle. 158
12.7.252 Sauce. 159
12.7.253 Soyabean sauce. 159
12.7.254 Spices based sauce. 159
12.7.255 Tomato sauce or tomato ketchup or tomato catsup or tomato relish. 159
12.8 Meat And Meat Products.
12.8.256 Meat or fresh meat. 160
12.8.257 Chilled meat. 160
12.8.258 Frozen meat. 160
12.8.259 Minced meat or ground meat. 160
12.8.260 Meat product. 160
12.8.261 Meat or meat product. 160
12.8.262 Meat paste. 160
12.8.263 Sausages. 160
12.8.264 Meat with other food. 160
12.8.265 Shami Kabab. 161
12.8.266 Kabab, Seekh Kabab, Qeema tikka, Qeema ki tikki. 161
12.8.267 Burger, chicken burger, mutton burger, beef burger, fish burger. 161
12.8.268 Meat extracts, meat essences and meat juices. 161
12.8.269 Hunter beef. 161
12.8.270 Meat cubes (chicken, mutton, beef). 161
12.8.271 Canned meat. 161
12.8.272 Meat canned with other food. 162
12.8.273 Particular labeling requirements of meat and meat products. 162
12.8.274 Fish. 162
12.8.275 Chilled fish. 162
12.8.276 Frozen fish. 162
12.8.277 Fish product. 162
12.8.278 Cured, pickled fish. 162
12.8.279 Smoked fish. 162
12.8.280 Fish, dried, unsalted or salted. 162
12.8.281 Prepared fish. 163
12.8.282 Dried prepared fish. 163
12.8.283 Canned fish. 163
12.8.284 Fish paste. 163
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12.8.285 Fried fish/fried fish coated with gram flour. 163
12.8.286 Fish sauce. 163
12.9 Water.
12.9.287 Use of water, ice, steam. 164
12.9.288 Bottled Water or packaged drinking water. 164
12.9.289 Natural mineral Water. 167
12.10 Miscellaneous Articles.
12.10.290 Salt, common salt, edible common salt, Namak. 169
12.10.291 Iodised Salt. 169
12.10.292 Meetha soda or soda bicarb. 170
12.10.293 Katha or catechu (edible), catechu nigrum. 170
12.10.294 Edible gelatine. 170
12.10.295 Silver leaf (chandi ka worq) 170
12.10.296 Groundnut kernel (deshelled) 170
12.10.297 Ispaghul husk. 170
12.10.298 Pan masala. 170
12.10.299 Artificial sweetening agent. 171
12.10.300 Flavouring essences or extracts. 171
12.10.301 Canned food for infants and children. 172
12.10.302 Low energy food/low calorie food. 174
12.10.303 Formula dietary food. 175
12.10.304 Meal replacement for weight control, food/diet for weight control
(Slimming or weight reducing and similar products). 175
12.10.305 Package for food. 177
12.10.306 Food not elsewhere standardized. 178
NO Forms
Form -1 & 2 179
Form -3& 4 180
Form -5 181
Form -5 ( Reverse) 182
Form -6 183
Form -7 184
Form -8 185
Form -9 186
Form -10 187
Form -11 188
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GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION
The_______________2007
NO.SO__________________. In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Punjab

Pure Food Ordinance, 1960 (VII of 1960), in suppression of the West Pakistan Rules, 1965, the
Governor of the Punjab is pleased to make the following rules
THE PUNJAB PURE FOOD RULES, 2007
1.Short title and commencement __ (1) These rules may be called the Punjab Pure Food
Rules,2007.
(2) They shall come into force at once.
2. “Definitions----In these, rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, ___
i “advertisement” Includes any notice, circular, label, wrapper, invoice or other
document, and any public announcement made orally or by means of producing or
transmitting light or sound; and “advertise” shall be construed accordingly;
ii “approved” means as approved by the Government of the Punjab.
iii “and/or”—Where the term “and/or” is used, “and” shall apply where possible,
otherwise “or” shall apply.
iv “appliance” includes the whole or any part of any utensil, machinery, instrument,
apparatus, or article used or intended to be used, in or for the
making,preparing,keeping,selling or supplying for any food.
v “bakery” means any place wherein is carried on the production or preparation, packing,
storing, display or sale of cream, biscuits, cakes, other bakery products or
confectionery;
vi “bottling factory” means any place in which aerated water, soda water, mineral or
spring water, syrup or other non-alcoholic beverage or any other food article is or
are bottled by way of trade or for sale;
vii “container” means any packaging of food for delivery as a single item, whether by
completely or partially enclosing the food and includes wrappers. A container may
enclose several units or types of packages when such is offered to the consumer.
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viii “claim” means any representation which states, suggests or implies that a food has
particular qualities relating to its origin, nutritional properties, nature, processing,
composition or any other quality and “claim” shall be construed accordingly;
ix “contravention”, in relation to any provision, includes any failure to comply with that
provision.
x “commercial operation” in relation to any food or contact material, means any of the
following, namely—
a) selling, possessing for sale and offering, exposing
or advertisement for sale;
b) consigning, delivering or serving by way of sale;
c) preparing for sale or presenting, labelling
or wrapping for the purpose of sale;
d) storing or transporting for the purpose of sale;
e) Importing and exporting.
xi “contact material” means any article or substance which is intended to come into
contact with food;
xii “covering” includes any stopper, glass bottle, vessel, box, capsule, case, frame or
wrapper;
xiii “dairy” includes any farm, shed, milking-house, milk store, milk-shop, creamery or other
premises from which milk is supplied on or for sale, or in which milk is kept or used for
the purpose of sale or of manufacture into cream, butter, cheese, desi ghee, dried milk
or condensed milk or other milk products for sale, or in which vessels used for the sale
of milk are kept, but does not include a shop from which milk is supplied only in the
properly closed and unopened vessels in which it is delivered to the shop, or a shop or
other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only;
xiv “food business” means any business in the course of which commercial operations
with respect to food or food sources are carried out;
xv “Food source” means any growing crop or live animal, bird or fish from which food is
intended to be derived whether by harvesting, slaughtering, milking, collecting eggs or
otherwise;
xvi “Food premises”, means any premises used for the purpose of a food business.
xvii ”Form” means a form appended to these rules;
xviii “Fresh”, means that the food is unprocessed, in its raw state and has not been frozen or
subjected to any form of thermal processing or any other form of preservation.
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xix “homogenised milk” means milk which has been treated in such a manner as to ensure
break up of the fat globules contained therein to such an extent that after forty-eight hours
of quiescent storage, no visible cream separation occurs on the milk.
xx “Human consumption” includes use in the preparation of food for human consumption;
xxi “Infant” means a person not more than 12 months age;
xxii “Ingredient” means any substance, including a food additive, used in the manufacture or
preparation of a food and present in the finished product although possibly in a modified
form.
xxiii “Importer” means any person who has imported any food from outside the jurisdiction of
a local authority, or the Pakistan by land, sea or air and includes any person who, whether
as owner consignor or consignee, agent or broker, is in possession of or in any way
entitled to the custody or control of any food; and “import” shall be construed
accordingly ;
xxiv “Lot” means a definitive quantity of a commodity produced essentially under the same
conditions.
xxv “Label” means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate
container of any article and upon the retail package of such article, unless it is easily
legible through the out side container or wrapper;
xxvi “labelling” means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon an article
or any of its containers, wrappers; or accompanying such article;
xxvii “milk seller” means any person who offers for sale or sells to another any milk or milk
products for human consumption ;
xxviii. “ordinance” means the Punjab Pure Food Ordinance, 1960 (VII of 1960)
xxix. “Owner” includes consignor, consignee, indentor, importer, agent, broker,
commission agent, manufacturers or sellers’s agent and any other person in
possession of the food;
xxx. “person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, company, firm, trustee, or
association.
xxxi. “premises” includes any place, vehicle, stall or moveable structure used for such
purposes as may be specified in an order made by the Government;
xxxii. “preparation”, in relation to food, includes manufacture and any form of processing or
treatment, and “preparation for sale” includes packaging and “prepare for sale” shall
be construed accordingly;
xxxiii. “presentation”, in relation to food, includes the shape, appearance and packaging of
the food, the way in which the food is arranged when it is exposed for sale and the
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setting in which the food is displayed with a view to sell, but does not include any
form of labelling or advertising, and “present” shall be construed accordingly;
xxxiv. “processed”, in relation to any food, means having undergone any treatment resulting
in a substantial change in the original state of the food, but does not include dividing,
parting, severing, boning, mincing, skinning, paring, peeling, grinding, cutting,
cleaning, trimming, deep-freezing, freezing, chilling, milling, husking, packing or
unpacking, and “unprocessed” shall be construed accordingly;
xxxv. “processing aid” means any substance not consumed as a food by itself, intentionally
used in the processing of raw materials , foods or their ingredients to fulfill a certain
technological purpose during treatment processing, and which may result in the
unintentional but technically unavoidable presence of residues of the substance or its
derivatives in the final product, provided that these residues do not present any
health risk and do not have any technological effect on the finished product.
xxxvi. “proprietor” includes the owner, the occupier and any other person having the
management or control of any eating house, hotel or restaurant;
xxxvii. “refrigerating factory” means an establishment employing refrigerating machinery
or ice for the purpose of refrigeration, or a place otherwise artificially cooled where
articles of food are stored below a temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit and includes
a cold storage,
xxxviii. “section means a section of the Ordinance;
xxxix. “substance” includes any natural or artificial substance or other matter, whether it is in
solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour;
xl. “treatment”, in relation to any food, includes subjecting it to heat or cold;
xli. “young children” means children aged between one and three year;
xlii. “ Food Authority” here means Executive District Officer Health.
xliii. “Food Testing Laboratory” for the purpose of this Rule means any place where the
food is to be checked in accordance with the standard set forth by the Government.
xliv. “Government” means the Government of the Punjab.
NOTE: - In these Rules, the symbols specified in the first column of the following table
shall have the meanings specified in relation to those symbols in the second column of
the table.
First column Second Column
Symbol. Meaning .
C Degrees in Celsius scale of temperature.
Cm Centimeters.
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g. grams
I.U International Units.
Kcal. Kilocalories
KGv Kilograv.
Kg. Kilograms
Kj Kilojoules
mcg /µg micrograms
mg milligrams
ml milliliters
mm millimeters
ppm parts per million
% percent
m/m mass by mass
w/v weight by volume
w/w weight by weight
v/v volume by volume
3. Warranty—
Every trader selling an article of food to a vendor shall, if the vendor so requires,
deliver to the vendor a warranty in Form 4;
Provided that no warranty shall be necessary if the label on the article of food or the
cash receipt of that article contains a warranty certificate that the food contained in
the package or container or mentioned in the cash-memo is the same in nature,
substance or quality as demanded by the vendor.
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4. “Food additive” means any safe substance that is intentionally introduced into on a food
in small quantities in order to affect the food’s keeping quality, texture, consistency,
appearance, odour, taste, alkalinity, or acidity, or to serve any other technological function in
the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging transport, or storage of
the food, and that results or may be reasonably expected to result directly or indirectly in the
substance or any of its by products becoming a component of, or otherwise affecting the
characteristics of the food, and includes any colouring substance, preservative, flavour, flavour
enhancer, antioxidant and food conditioner, but shall not include
a) Vitamins; Minerals or other nutrients in so far as they are used solely for the purpose of
fortifying or enriching food or of restoring the constituents of food;
b) herbs or spices when used as seasoning
c) hops;
d) salt;
e) yeast or yeast extracts;
f) the total products of any hydrolysis or autolysis of food proteins;
g) starter cultures;
h) malt or malt extract;
i) any substance which is present in food solely as a result of its addition to animal, bird or
fish feeding stuffs or its use in a process or treatment carried out in crop husbandry,
animal husbandry, veterinary medicine or storage (including any pesticide, fumigant,
sprout depressant or veterinary medicine), or
j) air or water.
4.1 The addition to any article of food of any food additive in contravention of the
following instructions shall be deemed to be a contravention within the meaning of section 4.
a) No person shall import, manufacture, advertise for sale or introduce in to or on any
food---
i. any food additive other than a permitted food additive; or
ii. any permitted food additive which does not comply with the standard prescribed
in these rules, where such standard is so specified.
iii. No food shall contain any food additive other than those specified in this rule
unless it is approved by the notification of the Government.
b) Additives used as ingredients in pre-packed foods to perform certain functions shall be
declared in the labelling by the appropriate category name of the function along with
their chemical names or European community number (E.C.No.) the categories are: -
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Acid Flour treatment agent
Acidity regulator Gelling agent
Anti caking agent Glazing agent
Anti-foaming agent Humectant
Antioxidant Modified starch
Bulking agent Preservative
Colour Propellant gas
Emulsifier Raising agent
Emulsifying salts Stabiliser
Firming agent Sweetener
Flavouring agent Thickener
Flavour enhancer
If an additive serves more than one function in food the category name which represents its
principal function must be used to describe it. Where no category name is available for the
function performed by an additive in a food, the additive must be declared in the ingredients
list by its specific name.
c) Labelling of food additive: - No person shall sell a food additive unless the label on the
package carries: -
i. The common name or appropriate designation and chemical name.
ii. The European community number (E.C. No).
iii. The lot number of food additive
4.2 Carry over of food additives. (a) For the purpose of the standards specified in
appendix II of Rule 12, the “carry over” principle applies to the presence of food additives
such as colours, flavouring agents, antioxidants, anti-caking agents, emulsifying and stabilizing
agents, and preservatives in food, as a result of the use of raw material or other ingredients in
which these additives were used. The presence of contaminants is not covered for this purpose
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b) The presence of an additive in food through the application of the carry over principle
is admissible in general unless otherwise specifically prohibited in these rules or in appendix II
provided the total additive including the carry over through the raw material or other
ingredients and it does not exceed the maximum amount so permitted.
5. Colouring matter in Food--- The addition to any article of food of any colouring matter
in contravention of the following instructions shall be deemed to be contravention within the
meaning of section 4: -
a) Synthetic Colours: - No synthetic colour or mixture thereof except the following shall be
used in the preparation of any food as given in the table below : -
Where an extraneous colouring matter has been added to any article of food that shall be
written on the label attached to any package of food so coloured statement in capital letters as
(contains permitted food colours*______________________) Blank is to be filled with colour
index name of colour used.
The list of permitted synthetic colours is given in the table below.
Colour Index Colour Index Common Name Chemical Name. EEC. NO.
Name
No
(a) 73015 Food Blue 1 Indigo Carmine Indigoid E132
(b) 42090 Food Blue 2 Brilliant Blue F.C.F Triarylmethane E133
(c) 42053 Food Green 3 A. F. Green No.3 Triarylmethane E143
(d) 15985 Food Yellow 3 Sunset Yellow F.C.F Monoazo E110
(e) 19140 Food Yellow 4 Tartrazine Monoazo E102
(f) 14720 Food Red 3 Carmoisine Monoazo E122
(g) 16255 Food Red 7 Ponceau 4R Mono Azo E124
(h) 45430 Food Red 14 Erythrosine B.S Xanthene E127
Indigo Carmine:-
Common Name Indigo Carmine

Synonyms Indigotine, FD and C Blue No.2 ,
CI Food Blue 1,
E.E.C. Serial No. E.132, L-Blau2
Color of the 0.1 per cent
(m/v) solution in distilled water. Blue
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Colour Index Number No. 73015
(1975)
Class Indigoid
Chemical Name Disodium salt of indigotine-5-disulphonic acid.
Empirical formula C16H8N2O8S2 Na2
Molecular Weight 466.36
Solubility Soluble in water
Sparingly soluble in ethanol
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:-
The material shall conform to the requirements prescribed in Table below:-
Requirements for Indigo Carmine
S.NO Characteristic Requirement
1 2 3
1. Total dye content, corrected for sample dried at 105 ±10Cfor 85
2 hours, per cent by mass. Min
2. Loss on drying at 1350C , per cent by mass and Chlorides and
Sulphates expressed as sodium salt, , per cent by mass, Max. 15
3. Water insoluble matter, per cent by mass, Max. 0.4
4. Combined ether extracts, per cent by mass, Max. 0.4
5. Subsidiary dyes, per cent by mass, Max. 3.0
6. Isatin sulphonic acid, percent by mass, Max. 1
7. Lead, mg /Kg, Max. 10
8. Arsenic, mg /Kg, Max. 3
9. Heavy metals, mg / Kg. Max. 40
It shall be free from mercury, copper and chromium in any form, aromatic amines.
Aromatic nitro compound, aromatic hydrocarbons, and cyanides;
Brilliant Blue F.C.F
Common Name Brilliant Blue F.C.F

Synonyms C.I.Food Blue, FD and C Blue No.1 Blue brilliant
FCF
E.E.C. Serial No.E133
(m/v) solution in distilled Blue
water.
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(1975)
Class Triarylmethane
Chemical Name Disodium salt of (4-(N-ethyl –β- sulfobenzyl-amino)
-phenyl) (-(4-(N-.ethyl 1-3-sulfonatobenzylimino)
cyclohexa-2, 5-dienylidence) toluence-2-sulfonate.
Empirical formula C37H34N2 Na2 O9S3
Requirements for Brilliant Blue F.C.F
1 2 3
0
1. Total dye content, corrected for sample dried at 105 ±1 Cfor 85
2 hours, per cent by mass. Minimum
6. Dye intermediates, percentby Mass, Max.
(a) 0, sulpho-benzaldehyde, Max. 1.5
(b) N-N, ethyl-benzyl-aniline-3-sulphonic acid, Max 0.3
( c) Leuco base, percent by mass, Max. 5
7. Chromium , mg / Kg. Max. 50
It shall be free from mercury, copper and aromatic amines. Aromatic nitro compound,
aromatic hydrocarbons, and cyanides;
A. F. Green No.3
Common Name A. F. Green
Synonyms CI Food Green 3, FD and C Green No.3 , Vert solids
FCF
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E.E.C. Serial No E143
(m/v) solution in distilled Green
water.
Colour Index Number (1975) No. 42053
Class Triarylmethane
Chemical Name Disodium salt of 4-(4-(N-ethyl –p- sulfobenzyl-amino)
-phenyl-(4-hydroxy-2-sulphonumphenyl)- methylene)
-N-ethyl –N-p- sulphobenzyl 2,5cyclohexadienimine)
Empirical formula C37H34O10 N2S2 Na2
Requirements for A. F. Green
1 2 3
1. Total dye content, corrected for sample dried at 105 85%
±10Cfor 2 hours, per cent by mass. Min
2. Loss on drying at 1350C , per cent by mass and Chlorides
and Sulphates expressed as sodium salt, , per cent by mass, 15
Max.
6. Organic compound other than colouring matter
uncombined intermediates and product of side reactions
(a) Sum of 2,3, 4,formyl benzene sulphonic acid, sodium 0.5
salts, percent by mass, Max.
(b) Sum of 3- and 4-(ethyl ( 4(4-sulfophenyl) amino)
methyl benzene sulphonic acid, disodium salts, percent 0.3
by mass Max.
(c ) 2-formyl-5-hydroxybenzene sulphonic acid sodium salt,
percent by mass, Max. 0.5
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(d) Leuco base, percent by mass, Max. 5.0
(e) Unsulphonated primary aromatic amines (calculated as
aniline), Percent by mass, Max. 0.01
9. Chromium, mg /Kg, Max. 30
10. Mercury, mg /Kg, Max. Absent
Note: - The material shall be free from aromatic nitro compounds, aromatic
hydrocarbons, and cyanides.
Sunset Yellow F.C.F
Common Name Sunset Yellow
Synonyms FD and C Yellow No. 6 Jaune Orange
S;C.I. Food Yellow 3/ Orange2 Janune
Soil. / E.E.C. Serial No. E.110
(m/v) solution in distilled Orange
water.
Colour Index Number (1975) No. 15985
Class Monoazo
Chemical Name Disodium salt of 2-hydroxy1 – (4
sulphonatophenylazo) 2-napthol-6-sulphonic acid.
Requirements for Sunset Yellow, FCF
1 2 3
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5. Subsidiary dyes (lower sulphonated dyes including traces of
orange (II) per cent by mass, Max. 3.0
6. Dye intermediates, per cent by mass, Max. 0.5
8. Arsenic mg /Kg, Max. 3
Tartrazine:-
Common Name Tartrazine
Synonyms FD and C Yellow No. 5
E.E.C. Serial No. E.102
L;Gebb 2, C.I. Food Yellow 4
(m/v) solution in distilled Yellow
water.
Class Monoazo
Chemical Name Trisodium salt of 5-hydroxy-1-4-sulphonatophenyl-
4(4-sulphonatophenylazo)pyrazol-3-carboxylic acid.
Requirements for Tartrazine

1 2 3
1. Total dye content, corrected for sample dried at 105 ±10Cfor 2 87
25
hours, per cent by mass. Min
2. Loss on drying at 1350C andChlorides and Sulphates 13
expressed as sodium salt, , per cent by mass, Max.

5. Subsidiary per cent by mass, Max. 1.0
Aromatic nitro compounds, aromatic hydrocarbons, and cyanides;
Carmoisine
Common Name Carmoisine
Synonyms Azorubine, C.I. Food Red 3
(m/v) solution in distilled water. Red
(1975)
Class Monoazo
Chemical Name Disodium salt of 4-hydroxy-3-(4-sulfo-1-
naphthylazo) 2 (4 –sulnaphthalene-1-sulphonate-1-
naphthylazo)-1-hydroxy-napthalene-4-sulphonic
acid.
Requirements for Sunset Yellow, FCF
1 2 3
0
1. Total dye content, corrected for sample dried at 105 ±1 Cfor 2 87
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5. Subsidiary dyes per cent by mass, Max. 3.0
Ponceau 4R
Common Name Ponceau 4R
Synonyms C1 Food Red 7,L-Rot No. 4, Coccine
Nouvelle,Cochineal Red A;

(m/v) solution in distilled Red
water.
(1975)
Class Monoazo
Chemical Name Tisodium -2-hydroxy – 1- (4- sulfonato – 1-
naphthylazo)naphthalene-6,8-disulfonate salt of 1 –(4 –
sulpho-1-naphenyl-azo)-napthol-6,8-sulphonic acid.
Empirical formula C20H11N2O10S3Na3
Requirements for Ponceau 4R
1 2 3
1. Total dye content, corrected for sample dried at 105 ±10Cfor 2 82
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5. Subsidiary dyes per cent by mass, Max. 3.0
Erythrosine B.S
Common Name Erythrosine
Synonyms FD and C Red No.3 C.I. Food Red 14
LB-Rot-I
E.E.C. Serial No. E127
(m/v) solution in distilled Red
water.
(1975)
Class Xanthene
Chemical Name Disodium or dipotassium salt of 2,4,5,7, tetraiodo-
fluerescein.
Empirical formula C20H6O5I4 Na2
Molecular Weight 879.87 (Disodium Salt)
soluble in ethanol
Requirements for Erythrosine
1 2 3
2. Loss on drying at 1350C,percentby by mass and Chlorides 13
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and Sulphates expressed as sodium salt, , per cent by mass,
Max.
4. Ether insoluble matter, (alkaline), percent by mass Max. 0.2
5. Inorganic Iodide, per cent by mass as sodium iodide, Max. 0.1
6. Subsidiary colouring matters except flourescein, per cent by 4
mass, Max.
7. Fluorescein, mg / Kg.Max. 20
8. Organic compounds other than colouring matter:
(a) Tri-iodoresorcinol, percent by mass. Max 0.2
(b) 2.(2,4-dihydroxy-3, 5-di-iodobenzoyl) benzoic acid,
percent by mass, Max. 0.2
11. Zinc, mg/ Kg. Max. 50
Aromatic nitro compounds, aromatic hydrocarbons, and cyanides.
(b) Natural Colouring Matters permitted: - Natural colour used in food shall be pure, free
from extraneous matter, adulterants. The following natural colouring matters may be used in or
upon any article of food.
Annatto
Chlorophyll
Curcumin or turmeric
Caramel
Beta Carotenes
Beta-apo-8, carotenal
Methylester of Beta apo-8, carotenic acid
Ethylester of Beta-apo-8, carotenic acid
Cantchaxanthin
Saffaron
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Riboflavin ( Lactoflavin )
c) Inorganic Colours and pigments prohibited: - Inorganic colouring matters or
pigments shall not be added to any article of food.
d) Artificial and Synthetic colouring matter prohibited in raw food: - The use of
artificial or synthetic colouring matters in raw food stuffs which are consumed after
cooking in the usual way is prohibited.
e) Labelling of Colours: - No person shall sell a synthetic colour or a mixture of
synthetic colour unless the label on the package carries;
i. The common and the colour index name(s) of the synthetic colour (s).
ii. The lot number of synthetic colour.
iii. The words “ Food Colour”.
iv. E.E.C.NO.
(f) Use of permitted synthetic colours restricted: - Use of permitted synthetic dyes in or
upon any food other than those shown below is prohibited; -
i) Ice Cream.
ii) Dairy products except milk, dahi, butter, ghee, cheese, yogurt, condensed
milk, cream, skimmed milk, toned milk recombined/ reconstituted milk,
iii) Smoked fish
iv) Biscuit, pastry, confectionery, savouries, wafer and similar products and
sweets.
v) Peas, strawberries and cherries in hermatically sealed containers, preserved or
processed papaya, canned tomato juice, fruit syrup, fruit squash, fruit cordial,
jellies, jam, marmalade, candied crystallized or glazed fruits, fruit drink,
flavoured drinks.
vi) Non-alcoholic beverages (carbonated water) except tea, cocoa, coffee, malted
foods.
vii) Custard powder.
viii) Jelly crystals.
ix) Soup powder.
x) Luncheon meat.
xi) Flavouring agents.
xii) Ice candy.
xiii) Sweetened ice, thread candies and similar products.
(g) Maximum limit of Colour: - The maximum limit of any permitted synthetic food
colour or mixture thereof which may be added to any food article enumerated in rule
5(f) shall not exceed 100 parts per million of final food or beverage for consumption
except in case of food articles mentioned in clause (v) of rule 5(f) where the maximum
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limit of permitted synthetic food colour shall not exceed 200 parts per million of the
final food or beverage for consumption.
h) Colour mixture: - A mixture of two or more permitted synthetic food colour
conforming to the prescribed standard without diluents and filler material and meant to
be used for imparting colour to food.It may contain permitted preservatives and
stabilizers.
i) No person shall sell a mixture of permissible food colour for use in or upon any food
unless the container carries a label stating the following: -
a) The word “food colour mixture” in capital words in a prominent position.
b) The common name, the colour index name, and chemical name of the synthetic
colours used in the mixture.
c) The ingredients shall be specified in descending order of the proportions by weight.
j) Colour preparation: - (1) A preparation containing one or more of the permitted
synthetic food colours conforming to the prescribed standards along with diluents and or
filler material and meant to be used for imparting colours to food. It may contain
preservatives and stabilizers permitted for that purpose. The colour preparation would
be either in the form of liquid or powder. The powder preparation shall be reasonably
free from lumps and any visible extraneous / foreign matter. Liquid preparation shall be
free from sediments. Only the following diluents or filler material shall be permitted to
be used in colour preparation conforming to the prescribed standards: -
a) potable water.
b) Edible common salt.
c) Sugar.
d) Dextrose monohydrate.
e) Liquid Glucose.
f) Sodium Sulphate.
g) Tartaric acid.
h) Glycerine.
i) Propylene Glycol
j) Acetic acid, dilute.
k) Sorbitol food grade.
l) Citric acid.
m) Sodium carbonate and sodium hydrogen carbonate
n) Lactose
o) Ammonium, sodium and potassium alginates
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p) Dextrins
q) Ethyl acetate
r) Starches
s) Diethyl ether
t) Ethanol
u) Glycerol mono, di and triacetate
v) Edible oils and fats
w) Isopropyl alcohol
x) Bees wax
y) Sodium and ammonium hydroxide
z)Lactic acid
aa) Carragenan and gum Arabic
bb)Gelatin
cc)Pectin
(2) No person shall sell a preparation of permitted colours for use in or upon food unless
its container carries a label stating the following particulars.
a) The word “ Food colours preparation” in capital words in a prominent position,
two times larger in size than other words (sentence) used on the container.
b) The name of various ingredients used in the preparation.
c) The name of the filler shall be in a prominent position equal in size to the words
“Food colours preparation” and shall be marked by a line all around as boundary
line and no other matter shall be printed within such line.
6. “Preservatives in food, use of preservatives for the purpose of analysis ” means any
substance which is capable of inhibiting, retarding or arresting the process of fermentation,
acidification or other decomposition of food or of masking any of the evidences of putrefaction
but it does not include common salt, salt petre, sugars, lactic acid, acetic acid, glycerine,
alcohol, herbs, hop extract, spices and essential oils used for flavouring purposes or any
substance added to food by the process of curing known as smoking.
6.1 The addition to any article of food of any preservative in contravention of the following
instructions shall be deemed to be a contravention within the meaning of section 4: -
a) No preservative other than those shown below shall be used in or upon any food;
i) Benzoic acid including salts thereof,
ii) Sulphurous acid including salts thereof,
iii) Nitrates,Nitrites of Sodium or Potassium in respect of foods like ham, pickled
meat,
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iv) Sorbic acid (E200) including its sodium (E201), potassium (E202)and calcium
(E203) salts. Propionate of calcium or sodium, lactic acid and acid calcium
phosphate.
v) Nicin
vi) Methyl, Ethyl or propyl para-hydroxy Benzoate (Parabenzs)
vii) Propionic acid (E280), including esters or salts thereof.
viii) Sodium diacetate, and
ix) Sodium, potassium and calcium salts of lactic acid.
b) Use of more than one preservative prohibited: - No person shall use in or upon a food
more than one preservatives:
Provided that where in column (2) of the Table given below, the use of more than one
preservatives may be used in combination with one or more alternatives, provided the quantity
of each preservative so used does not exceed such number of parts out of these specified for
worked out on the basis of the proportion in which such preservatives are combined.
ILLUSTRATION: - In the group of foods specified in item 6 of the table given below sub-
rule-c, sulpher dioxide or Benzoic acid can be added in the proportion of 40 parts per million
or 200 parts per million respectively. If both preservatives are used in combination and the
proportion of sulphur dioxide is 20 part per million, the proportion of Benzoic acid shall not
exceed the proportion of 100 parts per million.
c) The use of preservative shall be restricted to the following group of foods specified in the
first column of the following table and may contain the preservative specified in the second
column in proportion not exceeding the number of parts (estimated by weight) per million
specified in the third column: -
1 2 3
Article of food Preservative Part per million

1 Sausages and sausage meat containing raw meat, Sulphur 450
cereals and condiments dioxide
2 Fruit, Fruit pulp or juice (not-dried) for conversion
into jam or crystallized glace or cured fruit or other
products----
a) Cherries Sulphur 2,000
dioxide
b) Strawberries and raspberries -do- 2,000
c) Other fruits -do- 1,000
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3 Fruit juice concentrate -do- 1,500
4 Dried Fruits-----
a) Apricots, peaches, apples. -do- 2000
Pears and other fruits.
b) Raisins and sultanas -do- 750
5 Other non-alcoholic wines, cordials, Squashes, Sulphur 350
crushes, fruit syrups, fruits juices and barley water dioxide or
(to be used after dilution.) Benzoic acid 600
6 Jam, marmalade, preserves, canned cherry and fruit Sulphur 40
jelly. dioxide or
benzoic acid 200
7 Crystallised grace or cured fruit Sulphur 150
(including candied peel) dioxide
8 Fruit and fruit pulp not otherwise Sulphur 350
Specified in this schedule dioxide
9 Plantation white Sugar, cube sugar, dextrose, gur, Sulphur 150
jaggery , mesri. dioxide
a) Desi Khand (Sulphur) and Bura -do- 150
b) Refined sugar -do- 40
10. Corn flour and such like starches -do- 100
11. Corn syrup -do- 450
a) Canned Rassogolla (The cans shall be -do- 100
internally
Lacquered with Sulpher dioxide resistant
Lacquer)
12. Gelatine -do- 1000
13. Beer -do- 70
14. Cider -do- 70
15. Alcoholic wines -do- 450
16. Ready to serve Beverages. Sulphur 70
dioxide
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17. Brewed ginger beer Benzoic acid 120
18. Coffee extract -do- 450
19. Pickles and chutney made Sulphur 100
From fruits or vegetables. dioxide
Benzoic acid 250
20. Tomato and other sauces Benzoic acid 750
21. Pickled meat and bacon Sodium 200
Nitrite
and / or
Potassium
Nitrite
expressed as
Sodium
Nitrite
a) Corned beef -do- 100
b) Luncheon meat, cooked ham, chopped meat, Sodium 200
canned meat and goat meat and canned and / or
chicken Potassium
Nitrite
expressed as
Sodium
Nitrite
22. Danish tinned caviar Benzoic acid 50
23. Dehydrated vegetables Sulphur 2,000
dioxide
24. Tomato puree and paste Benzoic acid 750
25. Syrup and sherbets Sulphur 350
dioxide
Benzoic acid 600
26. Dried ginger Sulphur 2,000
dioxide
27. Hard boiled sugar confectionery Sulphur 350
dioxide
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28. Cheese or processed cheese Sorbic acid 3,000
including its
Sodium,
potassium &
calcium Salts
(calculated as
sorbic acid)
nicin 12.5
29. a) Flour confectionery Sorbic acid 1,500
including
b) Filled chocolate
sodium,
potassium and
calcium salts
(Calculated as
sorbic acid)
30. Smoked fish ( in wrappers) Sorbic acid Only wrappers
may be
impregnated with
sorbic acid
31. Dry mixes of Rasgollas. Sulphur 100
dioxide
32. a) Soups other than canned -do- 100
b) Dried soups. -do- 1500
c) Dehydrated soup mix when packed in -do- 1500
containers other than cans
33. Fruits and vegetables flakes, powder, figs -do- 600
34. Flour for baked food. Sodium 2,500
diaccetate
Or Propionate 3,200
or
Methyl / 500
propyl
Hydroxy
benzoate
35. Preserved chapaties. Sorbic acid 1,500
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36. Paneer or chhana Sorbic acid 2,000
and its
sodium
potassium or
calcium salts
(calculated as
sorbic acid )
Or
Propionic acid 2,000
& its sodium
or potassium
salts
(calculated as
propionic
acid)
37. Fat spread Sorbic acid 1000
and its
sodium
potassium or
calcium salts
(calculated as
sorbic acid )
Or
Benzoic acid and 1000
its sodium and
potassium salts
(Calculated as
benzoic acid or
both)
38. Jam, jellies, Marmalades, preserves, crystallized, Sorbic acid 500
glazed or candied fruits, including candied peels, and its
fruit bars. sodium
potassium or
calcium salts
(calculated as
sorbic acid )
39. Fruit juices concentrates with preservatives for Sorbic acid 100
conversion in juices, nectors for ready to serve and its
beverages in bottles, pouches, selling through calcium,
dispenser. sodium
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potassium
salts
(calculated as
sorbic acid)
40. Fruit juices ( tin, pouches or selling through -do- 500
dispensers)
41. Nectars, ready-to-serve beverages in bottles, -do- 50
pouches or selling through dispensers.
42. Prunes Potassium 1000
Sorbate
( Calculated
as
sorbic acid)
(i.) Sulphur dioxide shall not be added to meat or to any food recognizable as a source
of Vitamin B, except as provided for in sub-rule above.
(ii.) No food shall contain compounds of boron, salicylic acid or formaldehyde.
(iii.) No food shall contain sorbic acid or its compounds in excess of 0.1percent by
weight.
d) Use of preservatives in mixed foods: - In a mixture of two or more food mentioned

against each item in the table, the use of preservative or preservatives shall be restricted
to the limit up to which the use of such preservative or preservatives is permitted for the
food or groups of food contained in such mixture.
ILLUSTRATION:- In the food specified in the table given ,sulphur dioxide can be
added to dehydrated vegetables in the proportion of 2,000 part per million. If this is
mixed with the food specified in the said table, that is to say tomato puree and paste,
where benzoic acid is permitted to an extent to 250 ppm, then in the mixture containing
equal parts of these two foods, the proportion of Sulphur dioxide and benzoic acid, shall
be 1,000 p.p.m. and 125 p.p.m. respectively.
e) Container of food which contains preservatives not to be marked “pure”----- The

word “pure” shall not be used on the label of the container of any food which contains
preservative.
f) Labelling of preservatives for sale--- No preservative shall be sold for use in food
unless-
i) The label carries the common name;
ii) The chemical name;
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iii) The net weight;
iv) Adequate directions for use in accordance with the
limits prescribed for such preservatives and;
v) The name and address of the manufacturer.
vi) The material safety data sheet(MSDS)
6.2 Addition of preservative in the sample for the purpose of analysis---

i) Any person appointed as a food inspector under section 16, taking a sample of
milk or milk products for analysis may add a preservative to the sample for the
purpose of maintaining such sample in a condition suitable for such analysis.
ii) The preservative that shall be used for such purpose shall be the liquid
commonly known as ‘Formalin’ that is to say a liquid containing about 40 per
cent of formaldehyde in aqueous solution.
iii) The amount of such preservative that shall be added shall be approximately one
drop of formalin added from a dropping bottle to every 50ml of milk or milk
products in the sample.
iv) The vessel, in which a sample of milk or milk products to which formalin has
been added under this rule is kept, shall have affixed to it a label that the
sample has been artificially preserved.
7. “Flavouring compounds and agents in food” mean any substance that when added to
food is capable of imparting flavour to that food and includes flavouring substances, flavour
extracts or flavour preparations.
7.1 The addition to any article of food of any flavouring agent in contravention of the
following clauses shall be deemed to be a contravention within the meaning of section 4:
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a) No food shall contain any flavouring agent, which are by themselves toxic or contain
contaminant materials which are toxic.
b) Flavouring agents may be of following types.
i) Natural flavours and natural flavourig substances:
“Natural flavours” and “natural flavouring substances” are flavour preparations and
single substance respectively, acceptable for human consumption, obtained exclusively
by physical processes from vegetable, fruit, in their natural state.
ii) Natural-Identical flavouring substances:-
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“Natural-identical flavouring substances are substances chemically isolated from
aromatic raw materials or obtained synthetically; they are chemically identical to
substances present in natural products intended for human consumption, either
processed or not.
iii) Artificial flavouring substances: -
Artificial flavouring substances are those substances, which have not been
identified in natural products intended for human consumption either processed or not.
c) Any food which contains any natural flavouring agents shall be labelled with the legend
‘NATURAL FLAVOUR’ or CONTAINS NATURAL FLAVOURING’.
d) Any food, which contains any artificial flavouring agents or any natural identical
flavouring agents’ shall be labelled with the legend ‘ARTIFICIAL FLAVOUR’ or
‘IMITATION FLAVOUR’.
e) Restriction on use of flavouring agents: -
The use of the following flavouring agents are prohibited in any article of food, namely:
i) Coumarin and dihydrocoumarin;
ii) Tonka bean (dipteryl odorate); and
iii) ß-asarone and cinamyl anthracilate
iv) Estragol
v) Ethyl methyl ketone
vi) Ethyl-3-phenyl glycidate
vii) Eugenyl methyl ether
viii) Methyl β-napthyl ketone
ix) P.Propylanisole
x) Saffrole and isosaffrole
xi) Thujone and isothujone α & β thujone
f) Solvent in flavour—Diethylene glycol and monoethylether shall not be used as solvent
in flavours.
7.2 “Flavour enhancer” means any substance, which is capable of enhancing or improving
the flavour of food, but does not include any sauce, gravy, gravy mix, soup mix, spice or
condiment.
a) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver any flavour
enhancer for use in food intended for human consumption other than:-
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i) Monosodium salt of L-Glutamic acid (monsodium L-Glutamate).Sodium or
calcium salts of guanylic acid or inosinic acid or a combination thereof.
ii) Yeast extract or dried inactive yeast or autolyzed yeast or a combination
thereof.
iii) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver the
flavour enhancer mono-sodium salt of L-glutamic acid unless it contains not
less than 99 per cent of the monosodium salt calculated on a water free basis,
and derive solely from vegetable sources.
iv) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver the
flavour enhancer sodium or calcium salts of guanylic acid or inosinic acid or a
combination thereof unless it contain not less than 97 per cent and not more
than the equivalent of 102 per cent of the sodium or calcium salt of guanylic or
inosinic acid calculated on a water-free basis, and derived solely from
vegetable source.
v) No person shall import, sell, advertise, manufacture, consign or deliver the
flavour enhancer yeast extract or dried inactive yeast or autolyzed yeast or a
combination thereof unless it contains not more than 0.04 mg per gram of total
folic acid (approximately 0.008 milligram of pteroyglutamic acid per gram of
yeast) and derived solely from saccharomyces cerevisiae or saccharomyces
fragilis or torula yeast (candida utilize) or a combination thereof.
8. Antioxidants in food:- means a substance which when added to food retards or
prevents oxidative deterioration of food and does not include sugar, cereal oils, flours, herbs
and spices.
8.1 Restriction on use of anti-oxidants:- No anti-oxidant other than lecithin, ascorbic acid
and tocopherol shall be added to any food unless otherwise provided in Appendix – II and
Appendix B of these rules.
Provided that the following anti-oxidant, not exceeding in concentration mentioned
against each, may be added to edible oils and fats except desi ghee and butter, namely:-
1. Ethyl gallate
2. Propyl gallate
3. Octyl gallate 0.01 per cent
4. Dodecyl gallate
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5. Ascorbyl palmitate 0.02 per cent
6. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) 0.02 per cent
7. Citric acid
8. Tartaric acid
9. Galic acid 0.01 per cent
10 Resin Guaiace 0.05 per cent
11 Tertiary butyl hydro quinine (TBHQ) 0.02 per cent
Provided that dry mixes of Rasgollas and similar may contain butylated hydroxyanisole
(BHA) not exceeding 0.02 per cent calculated on the basis of fat content.
Provided further that anti-oxidants permitted in these rules may be used in permitted
flavouring agents in concentration not exceeding 0.01 percent.
Provided further that wherever butylated hydroxylanisole (BHA) is used is used in
conjunction with the anti-oxidants mentioned at items Nos.1 to 4 of the preceding proviso, the
quantity of the mixture shall not exceed the limit of 0.02 percent.
Provided also that desi ghee and butter may contain butylated hydroxylanisole (BHA)
to be used in conjunction which shall not exceed 0.02 percent.
Provided also that fat spread may contain butylated hydroxylanisole (BHA) or
Tertiary-butyl-hydro quinone (TBHQ) in a concentration not exceeding 0.02 percent by
weight on fat basis.
Provided further that ready to eat dry breakfast cereals may contain butylated
hydroxylanisole (BHA) not exceeding 0.005 percent (50p.p.m).
Provided also that ready to eat drink infant milk substitute, lecithin and ascrobyl
palmitate may be used up to a maximum limit 0.05gm /100 ml. and 1 mg/ 100mll
respectively.
Provided that chewing gum/ bubble gum may contain butylated hydroxylanisole
(BHA) not exceeding 250 ppm.
8.2 Use of anti-oxidants in Vitamin D Preparation:- Vitamin D preparation may contain

anti-oxidants prescribed in these rules not exceeding 0.08 per cent.
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3
2
1
1
S.NO.
(BHA)
Lecithin
2
Butylated
Additives
Antioxidant
Tocopherol,
Hydroxy- anisole
Snacks / Saoutiries (fried
products):- Chiwda,
Bhujia, Dalmoth,
Kadubale, Kharaboondi,
3
Spiced & fried dals,
GMP
GMP
200ppm
Maximum
bananas chips and similar
fried products sold by any
name.
Sweets ( Carbohydrates
based and milk product
based ):- Halwa, Mysor
Pak, Boondi Ladoo, Jalebi,
4
--
Khoya Burfi, Peda, Gulab
GMP
200ppm
Maximum
Jamun, Rasogolla, and
similar milk product based
sweets sold by anyname.
Instant Mixes:- Idli mix,

TABLE
dosa mix, puliyogare mix,

5
--
--
--
pongal mix, gulabjamoon

mix, jalebi mix,vada mix.
Rice and Pulses based

6
--
--
--
Papads
List of antioxidants for use in foods
Ready – to- Serve

--
--
--
7
BeveragesTea / Coffee
based
Chewing gum/ Bubble
8
--
--
Max
250
ppm
gum
--
--
--
Sugar based / Sugar free

9
confectionery.
--
--
--
Chocolates
10
--
--
--
Synthetic syrup for

11
dispensers
--
--
--
Lozenges
12
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9. “Food Conditioners, stabilizers in food”means any substance that is added to food for
a technological purpose to obtain the desired food and includes emulsifiers, antifoaming agents,
stabilisers, thickeners, modified starches, gelling agents, acidity regulators, enzymes, solvents
and anticaking agents, but shall not include preservative, colouring substance, flavouring
substance, flavour enhancer and antioxidants.
9.1 The addition to any article of food of any food conditioner in contravention of the
following clauses shall be deemed to be a contravention within the meaning of section 4;
i) The substances specified in table 1 and in column (2) of table II given below shall be
permitted food conditioners.
ii) Notwithstanding sub-rule (i) the addition of food conditioner to food is prohibited except as
otherwise permitted by these rules.
iii) Notwithstanding sub-rule (i) where the addition of food conditioner to food is permitted by
these rules, only food conditioner specified in table I may be added to such food.
Provided that the food conditioner specified in column (2) of table II may also be added to the
food specified opposite thereto in column (1) of the said table.
TABLE I
The following food conditioners listed under their class names are permitted in food:-
1. Emulsifiers and anti-foaming agents.
Acetylated monoglycerides
Dimethylpolysiloxane
Glyceryl monostrearate
Lecithins
Monoglycerides and diglycerides and their lactic, tartaric, diacetyl tartaric and citiric
acid esters.
Phosphoric acid (orthophosphoric acid) and its sodium, potassium and calcium
monobasic, diabsic, and tribasic salt
Polyglycerol esters of fatty acid
Polyglycerol esters of interesterified ricinoleic acid
Polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid esters
Propylene glycol alginate
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Propylene glycol monoesters and diesters
Silicon dioxide amorphous
Sodium aluminium phosphate (basic)
Sodium and potassium pyrophosphates (tetrasdium and tetrapotassium disphosphate)
and sodium and potassium acid pyrophosphates (disodium and dipotassium dihydrogen
diphosphate)
Sodium and potassium salts of fatty acid, which are derived from edible vegetable oil
and edible vegetable fat
Sodium and potassium tripolyphosphates
Sodium, potassium and calcium polyphosphates
Sorbitan fatty acid esters
Stearoyl lactylic acid and its sodium and calcium salt
Sucroglycerides
Sucrose esters of fatty acid
2. Stabilisers, thickeners, modified starches and gelling agents
Acacia (gum arabic)
Agar
Alginic acid and its sodium, potassium calcium and ammonium salts, and propylene
glycol alginate
Almmonium salts of phosphatidic acid
Calcium disodium ethylenediamine tetra-acetate
Calcium, trisodium and tripotassium citrate
Calcium glyconate
Calcium lactate
Calcium sulphate
Carbonate and bicarbonates of sodium, potassium, calcium and ammonium
Carob bean gum (locust bean gum)
Carrageenan
Casein and its sodium, calcium and potassium compounds, powdered cellulose, methyl
glucose, methyl cellulose, methyl ethyl cellulose, sodium
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Carboxymethyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose and
hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose. cellulose
Dextrin
Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate
Flour and starch
Furcelleran
Gelatin
Guar gum
Karaya gum
Magnesium hydroxide
Modified starches
Nitrous oxide
Pectin
Penta potassium and penta sodium triphosphate (potassium and sodium
tripolyphosphate
monobasic, dibasic, and tribasic salts
Potassium acetate
Potassium and calcium salts of hydrochloric acid
Potassium nitrate
Propylene glycol
Sodium and potassium pyrophosphate (tetrasodium and tetrapotassium diphosphate)
Sodium and potassium dihydrogen citrate
Sodium, potassium and calcium polyphosphate
Sorbitol
Tragacenth gum
Xanthan gum
3. Acidity Regulators
Acetic acid, citric acid, fumaric acid, lactic acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, and the
sodium potassium and calcium salts of the acid set forth in this group
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Adipic acid
Carbonates and bicarbonates of sodium, potassium, ammonium and magnesium
Glucono delta-lactone
Hydroxides of sodium, potassium, calcium and ammonium
monobasic salts, dibasic and tribasic salts.
Sodium aluminium phosphate
Vinegar
4. Enzymes
Amylase
Amyloglucosidase
Bromelain
Catalase
Cellulase
Dextranase
Ficin
Glucanase
Glucose isomerase
Glucose oxidase
Invertase
Malt Carbohydrases
Papain
Pectinase
Pepsin
Protease
Proteinase
Pullulanase
Rennet and protein coagulating enzymes
Lactase
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Lipase
5. Solvents
Ethyl acetate
Ethyl alcohol
Glycerol, glyceryl monoacetate, glyceryl diacetate, and triacetin
Propylene glycol
6. Anticaking agents
Aluminium silicate
Calcium aluminium silicate
Calcium phosphate tribasic
Calcium silicate
Magnesium carbonate
Magnesium oxide
Magnesium phosphate tribasic
Magnesium silicate
Salts of myristic, palmitic and stearic acids with bases (sodium, potassium, calcium,
aluminium, magnesium and ammonoium)
Silicon dioxide amorphous
Sodium alumino silicate.
TABLE II
Food Conditioner that may be added to specified Food
FOOD I FOOD CONDITIONER II

Artificial sweetening Agents Ethyl maltol, magnesium stearate Maltol, microcyrystalline
cellulose
Polyethylene glycol (in tablet form only) polyvinylpyrrolidone
Silicon Dioxide, stearic acid, tricalcium phosphate, (in granular
and powdered form only)
Bread ammonium chloride, clacium and sodium salts of fatty acid
lactylates and fumarates
Chocolate, white chocolate polyglycerol polyricinoleate
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Colouring preparation acidity regulators
(liquid form)
Cured, pickled or salted fish ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate,Isoascorbic acid, sodium
isoascorbate
Evaporated milk Sodium salts of hydrochloric acid
Flavoured syrup ascorbic acid
Flour ascorbic acid, benzoyl peroxide, sulphur dioxide or sulphites
Flour confection ammonium chloride, calcium and sodium salts of
fatty acid lactylates & fumarates
Fruit drink ascorbic acid
Fruit juice and Fruit pulp ascorbic acid
Fruit juice drink ascorbic acid
Iodized table salt Sodium thiosulphate
Meat paste and ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate, isoascorbic acid,
manufactured meat sodium isoascorbate
Pasta sodium silicate
Salt potassium ferrocyanide, sodium ferrocyanide,
ferric ammonium citrate
Wheat flour and potassium bromate L-cysteine
protein increased
wheat for bread.
Provided that the following emulsifying or stabilising agents shall not be used in milk
and cream, namely:
Monoglycerides or diglycerides of fatty acids, synthetic lecithin, propyleneglycol stearate,
propyleneglycol alginate, methyl ethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, sodium carboxymethyl
cellulose, stearyl tartaric acid esters of monoglycerides and digycerides of fatty acids,
monostearin sodium sulphoacetate, sorbitan esters of fatty acids or in combination.
Provided further that polyglycerol esters of fatty acids and polyglycerol ester of
interesterified ricinoleic acid may be used in bakery product and in chocolate to the extent of
0.2 per cent by weight.
Starch phosphate, a gum arabic substitute may be used in syrup, ice-cream powder,
salad dressing and pudding to a maximum extent of 0.5 per cent.
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The following emulsifying and stabilising agents may be added to fruit products:
1. Pectin.
2. Sodium alginate
3. Calcium alginate
4. Alginic acid
5. Propylene glycol alginate
The addition of the following anticaking agents to table salt, onion powder, garlic
powder, fruit powder and soup powder shall contain in concentration not exceeding 2.0 per
cent, either singly or in combinations, namely:-
1. Carbonates of calcium and magnesium;
2. Phosphates of calcium and magnesium;
3. Silicates of calcium, magnesium, aluminium or sodium or silicon dioxide;
4. Myristates, palmitates or stearates of aluminium, ammonium, calcium, potassium or
sodium.
Provided further that calcium, potassium or sodium ferrocyanide may be used as crystal
modifiers and anti-caking agent in common salt, iodised salt combination expressed as
ferrocyanide.
Dimethyl polysiloxane, food grade may be used as an antifoaming agent in edible oils
and fats for deep fat frying upto a maximum limit of 10 parts per million.
9.2 i) “Antifoaming agent” means substance, which retards deteriorative change and
foaming height during heating.
Spreadasil silicon spray (Dimethyl polysiloxane) if used as release agent in
confectionery shall not exceed 100 ppm of the finished product.
ii) “Humectant” (a) means any substance which, when added to food, absorb moisture
and maintain the water content of food.
(b) No person shall sell any food containing glycerine unless it is expressly permitted
by these rules.
iii) “Sequestrant” means any substance which, when added to food, combines with a
metal ion in the food and renders the metal ion inactive so as to stabilize certain
characteristics associated with the food, including color, flavour and texture.
No person shall sell or advertise for sale, with a view to its use in the
preparation of food for human consumption, any sequestrant other than a permitted
sequestrant as given below.
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Citric acid, phosphoric acid and tartaric acid or the calcium salts of the above-
mentioned acids as well as glycine may be added to food to serve as sequestrants.
Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetra acetate (EDTA) a sequerant may be
used only in the following:-
a) canned fish including crusta ceans at a level not exceeding 250 ppm and
b) mayonnaise, salad dressing, french dressing and margarine at a level not
exceeding 75 ppm.
iv) “Emulsifier”, means a substance which forms or maintains a uniform mixture of
two or more immisible phases such surfaces as oil and water in a food”.
v) “Antifoaming agent” means a substance, which prevents or reduces foaming
vi) “Stabiliser” means any substance, which makes it possible to maintain the physico
chemical state of a food including any substance, which enables a homogenous
dispersion
of two or more immisible substances in a food to be maintained and any substance,
which stabilises, retains or intensifies an existing colour of a food.
vii) “Thickener” means a substance, which increases the viscosity of a food.
viii) “Gelling agent” means a substance, which gives a food texture through formation
of a gel.
ix) “Acidity regulator” means a substance, which alters or controls the acidity or
alkalinity of a food.
x) “Anticaking agent” means a substance, which reduces the tendency of particles of
food to adhere to one another.
xi) “Bulking agent” means a substance other than air or water, which contributes to the
bulk of a food without contributing significantly to its available energy value.
xii) “Firming agent” means a substance, which makes or keeps tissues of fruit or
vegetables firm and crisp or interacts with gelling agents to produce or strengthen a gel.
xiii) “Foaming agent” means a substance, which makes it possible to form or maintain
a uniform dispersion of a gaseous phase in a liquid or solid food.
xiv) “Glazing agent” means a substance which, when applied to the external surface of
a food, imparts a shiny appearance or provides a protective coating.
xv) 1)“Gaseous Packaging agent” means any substance used;
a) As an aerating agent or propellant in the storage or packaging of any
fluid food; or
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b) To displace air in a sealed package or in a place of storage, in the storage
or packaging of any food.
2) No person shall use in the storage or packaging of any food any gaseous
packaging agent other than-
a) Carbon dioxide
b) Nitrogen; and
c) Helium
xvi) “Raising agent”, means a substance or combination of substances, which liberate
gas and thereby increase the volume of dough.
xvii) “Buffering agent” are materials used to counter acidic and alkaline changes
during storage or processing steps, thus improving the flavour and increasing the
stability of food.
xviii) “Modified starch” A product obtained from the treatment of starch with certain
chemicals to modify the physical characteristic of the native starch. It is used in
desserts, pie filling, gravies and fabricated food as thickeners, binders and stabilizers.
10. Non-nutritive constituents and Artificial sweetening agent in food, means any
substance that, when added to food, is capable of imparting a sweet taste to that food but does
not include any sugar, other carbohydrate, polyhydric alcohols, honey and moreover does not
have nutritive properties.
10.1 The addition to an article of food of any artificial sweetening agent / non-nutritive
sweetener in contravention of the following clauses shall be deemed to be a contravention
within the meaning of section 4;
a) Any food which purports to be or is presented for any special dietary use by man, by
reason of the presence of any constituent which is not utilised on normal metabolism
shall bear on its label a statement of the percent by weight of such constituent and in
(juxtaposition with the name of such constituent the word “artificial” or “artificial
sweetening agent”.
b) Where an artificial sweetening agent/ non-nutritive sweetener has been added to any
food the label shall bear in lieu of the statement prescribed in clause (a) ‘contains
artificial sweetening agent (here state the appropriate designation of the artificial
sweetening agent (here state the appropriate designation of the artificial
sweetening agent in capital letters) ________ (here state the percentage by weight of
artificial sweetening agent in such food). AN ARTIFICIAL SWEETENING AGENT,
NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENER WHICH SHOULD BE USED
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ONLY BY PERSONS WHO MUST RESTRICT THEIR INTAKE OF
ORDINARY SWEETS.
c) The use of artificial sweetening agents / non-nutritive sweetener in or upon any food,
which is consumed by children for refreshment, shall be prohibited.
d) The use of artificial sweetening agents in or upon supari, processed supari, pan masalas,
pan flavouring substance, confectionery, chewing substances and including any such
food is prohibited.
10.2 No artificial sweetening agent / non-nutritive sweetener except the following shall be
used in the preparation of any food:-
i) Saccharine and its sodium salt (E.954)
ii) Aspartame (E.951)
iii) Acesulfame K (E.950)
10.3 Restriction on use and sale of artificial Sweeteners: No artificial sweetener shall be
added to any article of food.
Provided that artificial sweetener may be used in food articles in the table below in
quantities not exceeding the limits shown against them.
Table
S.No Name of Article of Food Maximum Limit
Artificial of Artificial
Sweetener Sweetener
1 2 3 4
1 Saccharin Carbonated Water 100ppm
Sodium
Soft Drink Concentrate 100ppm
Pan Flavouring Material 8.0percent
Synthetic Syrup for dispenser 450ppm
Sweets ( Carbohydrates based and milk products 500ppm
based):Halwa,Boondi Ladoo, Jalebi, Khoya,
Burfim, Gulab Jamun, Rasogolla and similar milk
product based sweets sold by any name.
Chocolaate (White, milk, plain, composite and 500ppm
filled)
Sugar based /sugar free confectionery 3000ppm
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Chewing gum/ bubble gum 3000ppm
2 Aspertame Carbonated water 700ppm
(methyl Soft drink concentrate 7000ppm
ester)
Biscuits, Bread, Cakes and Pasteries 2200ppm
Sweets, (Carbohydrates based and milk products 200ppm
based)
Halwa,Boondi Ladoo, Jalebi. 200ppm
Khoya burfi, gulab jamun, Rasgolla and similar 200ppm
milk product based sweet sold by any name.
Jam, Jellies, Marmalades 1000ppm
Chocolate ( white, milk, plain, composite and 2000ppm
filled
sugar based / sugar free confectionery 10000ppm
Chewing gum /bubble gum 10000ppm
Synthetic syrup for dispenser 3000ppm
3 Acesulfame Carbonated water 300ppm
Potassium
Soft drink concentrate 300ppm
Biscuits, bread, cakes and pasteries 1000ppm
Sweets ( carbohydrates based and milk product 500ppm
based):- Halwa, Boondi Ladoo, Jalebi, Khoya
Burfi, Gulab Jamun, Rasogolla and
similar milk product based sweet sold by any
name.
Chocolate (white, milk plain, composite and filled) 500ppm
Sugar based / sugar free confectionery. 3500ppm
Chewing gum / bubble gum` 5000ppm
Synthetic syrup for dispenser 1500ppm
Explanation I: Pan flavouring material refers to the flavouring agents permitted for human
consumption to be used for pan. It shall be labeled as
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“PAN FLAVOURING MATERIAL”
Explanation II: Maximum limit of artificial sweetener in soft drink concentrate shall be as
in reconstituted beverage or in final beverage for consumption. Soft drink concentrate label
shall give clear instruction for reconstitution of products for making final beverage.
No mixture of artificial sweeteners shall be added to any article of food or in the
manufacture of table top sweeteners.
Provided that in case of carbonated water, soft drink concentrate and synthetic syrup for
dispenser, wherein use of aspartame and acesulfame potassium have been allowed in the
alternative, as per Table given, these artificial sweeteners may be used in combination with
one or more alternative if the quantity of each artificial sweetener so used does not exceed
the
maximum limit specified for that artificial sweetener in column (4) of the said Table as
may be worked out on the basis of proportion in which such artificial sweeteners are
combined. The products containing mixture of artificial sweeteners shall bear the label as
provided in rule 18.
ILLUSTRATION:-In column (3) of the said Table, in carbonated water, Aspertame
(Methyl Ester) or Acesulfame Potassium may be added in the proportion of 700ppm or
300ppm respectively. If both artificial sweeteners are used in combination and the
proportion of aspartame (Methyl Ester) is 350ppm, the proportion of Acesulfame
Potassium shall not exceed the proportion of 150ppm.
No person shall sell table top sweetener except under label declaration as provided in these
rules.
Provided that aspartame may be marketed as a table top sweetener in tablet or granular form in
moisture proof package and the concentration of aspartame shall not exceed18 mg per 100 mg
of tablet or granule.
10.4. The label statement of foods containing artificial sweetening agents / non-nutritive
sweetener shall, in addition, conform to the requirements of any other provisions of these
rules.
10.5 Artificial sweetening agents / non-nutritive sweetener and sugar shall not be used in
combination in any food.
10.6 a) An artificial sweetening agent / non-nutritive sweetener preparation in a tablet,
granular, powder or liquid form shall be the product of the artificial sweetening agent in a base
which may contain any of the substance given below: -
Acacia (gum arabic), agar, alginic acid and its sodium, potassium and ammonium slats,
calcium alginate and propylene, glycol alginate, carrageenan, citric acid, dextrin,
dextrose, ethyl alcohol, gluconodelta-lactone, glycerol, guar gum, karaya gum,
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hydroxypropylmethylcelluloselactose, L-leucine, locust bean gum, mannitol,
methylcellulose, mono-di-and polysaccharides, pectin, potassium acid tartrate, propylene
glycol, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sodium citrate, sodium
phosphate, sorbitol, tartaric acid, tragacanth gum, water, xanthan gum.
b) A liquid preparation of artificial sweetening agents / non-nutritive sweetener may
contain sulphur dioxide, benzoic acid or sorbic acid in a proportion not exceeding at total
of 2000 ppm whether present singly or in any combination as permitted preservative.
c) An artificial sweetening agents / non-nutritive sweetener preparation may contain
polyethylene glycol in a proportion not exceeding 1 per cent and other food conditioners as
specified by these rules.
d) There shall be written in the label of a package containing an artificial sweetening
agents / non-nutritive sweetener preparation—
i) In not less than 10 point lettering, the words “artificial sweetening agent / non-
nutritive sweetener” to be followed immediately by the name of the artificial
sweetening agent / non-nutritive sweetener —
ii) a statement of concentration—
a) in the case of tablets, as milligrams per tablet;
b) in the case of liquids, as percentage weight in volume; and
c) in the case of granules or powder as milligrams per serving contained in a
sachet or similar package;
iii) a statement indicating the equivalence of the artificial sweetening agents / non-
nutritive sweetener both in sweetness and energy;
10.7. Artificial sweetening agents / non-nutritive sweetener shall not be sold unless the
package carries a label showing: -
i) The words “artificial sweetening agent / non-nutritive sweetener” to be followed
immediately by the name of the artificial sweetening agent / non-nutritive
sweetener.
ii) The chemical name;
iii) Adequate direction for use in foods.
iv) A statement of concentration—
a) in the case of tablets as milligrams per tablet;
b) in the case of granules or powder as milligrams per serving contained in a
sachet or similar package;
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c) a statement indicating the equivalence of the artificial sweetening agent /
non-nutritive sweetener both in sweetness and energy;
d) The words “not recommended for children except on medical advice”
except where the artificial sweetening agent preparation contains
aspartame as the only artificial sweetening agent / non-nutritive
sweetener; and
e) a statement in the form “not recommended for phenylketonurics”
and pregnant women” where the artificial sweetening
agent/ non-nutritive sweetener/preparation contains aspartame
11. “Unsound food and food injurious to health / Incidental constituent” means any
extraneous substances, metal contaminants, Crops contaminants and naturally occurring
toxic substances / mycotoxin residue, drug residue; antibiotic residue harmonal residue,
insecticides residue, pesticides residue , microorganism and their toxins, and irradiated
constituents that is contained or present in or any food but does not include any colouring
matter, preservative, flavouring agent, flavouring enhancer, anti-oxidant, food conditioners,
artificial sweetening agent, nutrient supplement.
No person shall keep, carry, spread or use, or cause or permit to be kept, carried,
spread or used any toxic, noxious or harmful substance so as to expose a food intended for
sale to the risk of contamination by that substance at any time in the coarse of preparation,
manufactured, storage, packaging, carriage, delivery, or exposure for sale, of the food. No
person shall import, prepare or advertise for sale or sell any food containing any incidental
constituent except as otherwise specified in these rules. Any article of food shall be
considered as injurious to health and unfit for human consumption within the meaning of
section 5, if
it is putrefied or decayed or emits a bad smell ; or
it is infested with insects ; or
it has evidence of filth or of rodent excretion or hair.
1. Poisonous Metal :-
(a) No person shall import, prepare or advertise for sale or sell any food , specified
in column (2) of the table below, which contains any metal specified in excess of the quantity
specified in column (3) of the said table.
Metal Article of Food Parts per

million by
weight
Lead (i) Beverages:
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Concentrated soft drinks (but not including concentrates
used in the manufacture of soft drinks). 0.2
Fruit and vegetable juice (including tomato juice, but not
including lime juice and lemon juice) 0.2
Concentrates used in the manufacture of soft drinks, lime
juice and lemon juice 1.0
Baking powder 2
Edible oils and fats 0.1
Infant milk substitute and infant foods. 0.2
Turmeric whole and powder 2.0
(ii) Other foods
Anhydrous dextrose and dextrose monohydrate, edible
oils and fats, refined white sugar (sulphated ash content 0.5
not exceeding 0.03 %)
Ice-cream, iced lollies and similar frozen confections. 0.5
Canned fish, canned meats, edible gelatin, meat extracts 2.0
and hydrolysed protein, dried or dehydrated vegetables
(other than onions)
Canned fish, canned meats, edible gelatin, meat extracts
and hydrolysed protein, dried or dehydrated vegetables
(other than onions)
Raw sugars except those solid for direct consumption or
used for manufacturing purposes other than the
manufacture of refined sugar.
Edible molasses, caramel, liquid and solid glucose and
starch conversion products with a sulphated ash content
exceeding 1.0%.
Cocoa powder 2.0(on the
dry fat free
substances)
5.0(on the dry fat free substances) 2.0
Tea, dehydrated onions, dried herbs and spices, 2.0
flavorings, alginic acid, alignates, agar, carrageen and
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similar products deried from seaweed. Liquid pectin,
chemicals not otherwise specified, used as ingredients or
in the preparation or processing of food.
Food Coloring other than caramel. 10.0
Solid pectin 10.0
Hard boiled sugar confectionery. 0.5
Corned beef, luncheon meat, chopped meat, canned 2.0
chicken, canned mutton and goat meat.
(iii) Foods not specified. 2.0
Copper (i) Beverages
Soft drinks excluding concentrates and carbonated water 7.0
carbonated water 1.5
Concentrates for soft drink 20
(ii) Other foods
Chicory dried or roasted, coffee beans, flavourings, pectin- 30
liquid
Coloring (on the dry coloring matter) 30
Edible gelatin 30
Tomato ketchup (on the dried total solids) 50
Yeast and yeast products(on the dry matter) 60
Cocoa powder(on the fat free substance) 70
Tomato puree, paste, powder juice and cocktails 50
(on the dried tomato solids)
Tea 150
Pectin-solid 300
Hard boiled sugar confectionery 5
Turmeric whole and powder 5
Juice of orange, grape, apple, tomato, pineapple and lemon 5
Infant milk substitute and infant foods (but not less than 2.8) 15
Foods not specified 30
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Arsenic Milk 0.1
Beverages soft drink intended for consumption after dilution 0.1
except carbonated water
carbonated water 0.1
Infant Milk substitute and Infant food 0.05
Turmeric whole and powder 0.1
Juice of orange, grape, apple, tomato, pineapple and lemon 0.2
Pulp and pulp products of any fruit. 0.2
(iii) Preservatives, anti-oxidants, emulsifying and stabilizing 0.30
agents and synthetic food colors. On dry
basis
(iv) Other foods
Ice-cream, iced lollies and similar frozen confections 0.5
Dehydrated onions, edible gelatin, liquid pectin 2.0
Chicory-dried or roasted 1.0
Dried herbs, fining and clearing agents, solid pectin all grades, 1.0
spices
Food coloring other than synthetic coloring. 3.0
(on dry coloring matter)
Hard boiled sugar confectionary 1.0
(v) Foods not specified. 1.0
Tin (i) Processed and canned products 40.0
Jam, jellies and marmalade 40.0
Juice of orange, apple tomato, pineapple and lemon. 40.0
Pulp and products of any fruit 40.0
Hard boiled sugar confectionary 5.0
Infant milk substitute and infant foods 5.0
Turmeric whole and powder Nil
Corned beef, luncheon meet, cooked ham, chopped meat, 40.0
canned chicken, canned mutton and goat meat.
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(ii) Foods not specified 40.0
Zinc (i) Ready to drink beverages 5.0
Juice of orange, grape tomato, pineapple and lemon. 5.0
Pulp and pulp products of any fruit 5.0
Infant milk substitute and infant foods 50
(ii) Edible gelatin 100
(iii) Turmeric whole and powder 25
(iv) Fruit products covered under the Fruit Products 50

Order, 1955
(v) Hard boiled sugar confectionery 5.0
(vi) Foods not specified 50
Cadmium (i) Infant milk substitutes and infant foods 0.1
(ii) Termeric whole and powder 0.1
(iii) Other foods 1.0
Mercury Fish Other food 0.5
Methyl Mercury All foods 0.05
(Calculated as
the element)
Chromium Refined Sugar 20 ppb
Nickel All hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated, interesterfied vegetable oils and 0.025
fats such as vanaspati, table margarine, bakery shortening, fat spread and
partially hydrogenated soyabean oil
2. Crop contaminants and Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances:-

Crop contaminants (1) crop contaminants mean any substance not intentionally
added to food, but which gets added to articles of food in the process of their production
(including operations carried out in crop husbandry, animal husbandry and veterinary
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medicine), manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or
holding of articles of such foods as a result of environmental contamination.
(2) No article of food specified in column (2) of the Table below shall contain crop
contaminant specified in the corresponding entry in column (1) thereof in excess of quantities
specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said table:-
TABLE
Name of the contaminants Article of Food mg /Kg
1 2 3
Aflatoxin All articles of food excluding 0.03

food grains, cereals.
Naturally Occurring Toxic Substances:-The toxic substances specified in column (1) of the
table below, which may occur naturally in any article of food, shall not exceed the limit
specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the said table.
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TABLE
Name of Substance Maximum Limit
1 2
Agaric acid 100 ppm
Hydrocyanic acid 5ppm
Hypericine 1 ppm
Saffrole 10ppm
3. Drug Residue:-
In these rules drug means any substance or mixture used internally for therapeutic,
prophylactic or growth promotion purposes or for modification of physiological function or
behaviour in animals.
Drug residue means the parent compounds of the drug and their metabolities in any
edible portion of the animal product, and include residues of associated impurities of the drug
concerned.
The amount of antibiotic mentioned in column (2) on the sea foods including
shrimps, prawns or any other variety of fish and fishery products shall not exceed the tolerance
limit prescribed in column (3) of the table given below.
TABLE
S.NO Name of Antibiotics Tolerance Limit mg /Kg (ppm)

1 2 3
1. Tetracycline 0.1
2. Oxytetracycline 0.05
3. Trimethoprim 0.05
4. Oxolinic acid 0.3
The use of any of the following antibiotics and other Pharmacologically active substances shall
be prohibited in any unit processing sea foods including shrimps, prawns or any other variety
of fish and fishery products;
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(i) All Nitrofurans Including
(a) Furaltadone
(b) Furazolidon
(c) Furylfuramide
(d) Nituratel
(e) Nifuroxime
(f) Nifurprazine
(g) Nitrofurnation
(h) Nitrofurazone
(ii) Chloramphenicol
(iii) Neomycin
(iv) Nalidixic acid
(v) Sulphamethoxazole
(vi) Aristolochia spp and preparation thereof
(vii) Chloroform
(viii) Cholropromaszine
(ix) Colchicine
(x) Dapsone
(xi) Dimetridazole
(xii) Metronidazole
(xiii) Ronidazole
(xiv) Ipronidazole
(xv) Other nitromidazoles
(xvi) Clenbuterol
(xvii) Diethylstibestol
(xviii) Sulfanoamide drugs (except approved sulfadimethoxine, sulfabromomethazine and
sulfaethoxypyridazine)
(xix) Fluoroquinolones
(xx) Glycopeptides
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4. “Oestrogen residues”. No person shall prepare, advertise for sale or sell any meat or any
food derived from meat, which contains residues of the following compounds: -
i) Diethylstilbestrol
(3,4-bis(p-hydroxyphenyl)-3-hexene);
ii) Hexoestrol
(3, 4-bis (p-hydroxyphenyl)-n-hexane);
iii) Dienostrol
(3, 4-bis (p-hydroxyphenyl)-2, 4-hexadiene).
5. “INSECTICIDES AND PESTICIDES ”

Restriction on the use of insecticides is subject to the provision of the table below
and, no insecticide shall be used directly on article of food:
The amount of insecticide mentioned in column 2, on the foods mentioned in
column 3, shall not exceed the tolerance limit prescribed in column 4 of the table given
below:
TABLE
Name of Insecticide Food Tolerance limit mg/kg

(ppm)
Aldrin dieldrin, (The limits Food grains 0.01
apply to aldrin or dieldrin singly Milled Food grains Nil
or in any combination and are Milk and Milk Products 0.15(on a fat basis)
expressed as dieldrin)
Fruit an Vegetable 0.1
Meat 0.2
Eggs 0.1(on a shell free
basis)
Carbaryl Fish 0.2
Foodgrains 1.5
Milled Foodegrains Nil
Okra and leafy vegetables 10.0
Potatoes 0.2
Other vegetables 5.0
Cottonseed ( whole) 1.0
Maize cob (kernels) 1.0
Maize 0.5
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Rice 2.5
Chilies 5.0
Choldrane (residue to be Food grains 0.02
measured as cis plus trans Milled Food grains Nil
chlorsdne) Milk and Milk Products 0.05(on a fat basis)
Vegetables 0.2
Fruits 0.1
Sugar beet 0.3
D.D.T. (The limits apply to Milk and Milk Products 1.25(on a fat basis)
D.D.T., D.D.D and D.D.E. Fruits and Vegetables (including 3.5
singly or in any combination potatoes) 7.0(on whole product
Meat, poultry and fish basis)
Egg 0.5(on a shell free
basis)
Diazinon Food grains 0.05
Milled Food grains Nil
Vegetables 0.5
Dichlorvos (content of Foodgrains 1.0
dichloroacetaldehyde) (D.C.A) Milled foodgrains 0.25
be reported where possible. Vegetables 0.15
Fruits 0.1
Dicofol Fruits and Vegetables 5.0
Tea(dry manufactured) 5.0
Chillies 1.0
Dimethoate (residue to be Fruits and Vegetabeles 2.0
determined as dimethoate and Chillies 0.5
expressed as dimethoate)
Endosulfan (residues are Fruits and Vegetabeles 2.0
measured and reported as total of Cottonseed 0.5
endosulfan A and B and Cottonseed oil 0.2
endosulfan-sulphate)
(crude) 0.2
Bengal gram 0.2
Pigeon pea 0.1
Fish 0.2
Chillies 1.0
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Cardamom 1.0
Fenitrothion Foodgrains 0.02
Milled foodgrains 0.005
Milk and Milk products 0.05(on a fat basis)
Fruits 0.5
Vegetables 0.3
Meat 0.03
Heptachlor (Combined Foodgrains 0.01
Residues of heptachlor Milled foodgrains 0.002
And epoxide to be Milk and Milk Products 0.15(on a fat basis)
Determined and expressed Vegetables 0.05
As heptachlor)
Hudrogen cyanide Foodgrains 37.5
Milled foodgrains 3.0
Hydrogen phosphide Foodgrains Nil
Milled foodgrains Nil
Inoganic bromide Food grains 25.0
(determined and expressed as Milled foodgrains 25.0
total bromide from all sources Fruits 30.0
Dried fruits and spices 400.0
Hexachlorocylohexane Rice grain unpolished 0.10
And its isomers Rice grain polished 0.05
(a) Alfa , isomer: Milk (whole) 0.02
Fruits and Vegetables 1.0
Fish 0.25
(b) Beta (B) isomer Rice grain-unpolished 0.1
Rice grain polished 0.05
Milk (whole) 0.02
Fish 0.25
(c)Gamma (y) isomer Food grains except rice 0.1
known as Lindane Milled Food grains Nil
Rice grain Unpolished 0.1
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Milkc 0.01(on a whole basis)
Milk products 0.2(on a whole basis)
(having less than 2 percent fat)
Fish 0.25
Eggs 0.1(on shell free basis)
Meat and poultry 2.0
(d) Delta (D) isomer Rice grain Unpolished 0.1
Milk (whole) 0.02
Fruits and Vegetable 1.0
Fish 0.25
Malathion (Malathion to be Food grains 4.0
determined and expressed as Milled food grains 1.0
combined residue of malathion Fruits 4.0
and malaoxon)
Vegetables 3.0
Dried fruits 8.0
Parathion (Combined residues of Fruits and vegetables 0.5
parathion and paraoxon to be
determined and expressed as
parathion)
Parathion methy1 Fruits 0.2
(Combined residue of parathion Vegetable 1.0
methy1 and its oxygen analogue
to be determined and expressed
as parathion methy1)
Phosphamidon residues Foodgrins 0.05
(expressed as the sum Milled Foodgrains Nil
Of Phosphamidon and Fruits and Vegetables 0.2
itsdesethy1 derivative
Phyrethrins (Sum of pyrethrins I Foodgrains Nil
and II and other structurally Milled foodgrains Nil
related insecticidal ingredients of Fruits and Vegetables 1.0
pyrethrum)
Chlorfenvinphos Foodgrains 0.025
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Meat and Poultry 0.02
Milk and Milk products 0.02
Egg 0.02(On a shell free
Coffee (Raw Beans) basis)
0.1
Paraquate-Dichloride Food grains 0.1
(Determined as paraquatcations Milled food grains 0.025
Potatoes 0.2
Cotton seed 0.2
Cottonseed oil (edible refined 0.05
Milk (whole) 0.01
Fruits 0.05
Phosalone Pears 2.0
Citrus fruits 1.0
Other fruits 5.0
Potatoes 0.1
Rapeseed/Mustard oil (crude) 0.05
Trichlorfon Food grains 0.05
Milled food grains 0.0125
Sugar beet 0.05
Fruits and vegetables 0.1
Oil seeds 0.1
Edible oil (refined) 0.05
Meat and Poultry 0.1
Milk (whole) 0.05
THIOMETON (Residues Food grains 0.025
determined as thiometon its Milled food grains 0.006
sulfoxide and sulphone Fruits 0.5
expressed as thoimeton) Potatoes, Carrots and Sugar 0.05
beets 2.5
Other vegetables
Acephate Safflower seed 2.0
Cotton seed 2.0
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Methamido-phos (A Metabolite Safflower seed 0.1
of Acephate) Cotton seed 0.1
Aldicarb (Sum of Aldicarb, its Potato 0.5
sulphoxide and sulphone, Chewing Tobacco 0.1
expressed as Aldicarb)
ATRAZINE Maize Nil
Sugarcane 0.25
Carbendazim Food grains 0.5
Vegetables 0.50
Mango 2.0
Banana (whole) 1.0
Other fruits 5.0
Cotton seed 0.1
Groundnut 0.1
Sugar beet 0.1
Dry fruits 0.1
Eggs 0.1(On shell free basis)
Meat & Poultry 0.1(Carcass fat basis)
Milk & Milk products 0.1 (Fat Basis)
Benomy1 Food grains 0.5
Vegetables 0.5
Mango 2.0
Banana (whole) 1.0
Other fruits 5.0
Cotton seed 0.1
Groundnut 0.1
Sugar beet 0.1
Dry fruits 0.1
Eggs 0.1(on shell free basis)
Milk & Milk products 0.1(fat basis)
Captan Fruit & Vegetable 15.0
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Carbofuran (sum of carbofuran Food grains 0.1
and 3-hydroxy carbofuran Milled food grains 0.03
expressed as carbofuran) Fruit & Vegetable 0.1
Oil seed 0.1
Sugarcane 0.1
Meat & Poultry 0.1(carcass fat basis)
Copper Oxychloride Fruit 20.0
(Determined as copper) Potato 1.0
Cypermethrin (sum of isomers Wheat grains 0.05
(fat soluble residue) Milled wheat grains 0.01
Brinjal 0.20
Cabbage 2.0
Bhindi 0.2
Oil seeds except groundnut 0.2
Decamethrin/Deltamethrin Cotton seed 0.1
Food grains 0.5
Edifenphos Rice 0.02
Rice bran 1.0
Eggs 0.01(On shell free
Meat & poultry basis)
Milk & Milk products 0.02(Carcass fat basis)
0.01(fat basis)
Fenthion (sum of fenthion, its Food grains 0.1
oxygen analogue and their Milled food grains 0.03
sulphoxides and sulphones, Onion 0.1
expressed as fenthion)
Potatoes 0.05
Beans 0.1
Peas 0.5
Tomatoes 0.5
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Musk melon 2.0
Frnvalerate (fat soluble residue) Cauliflower 2.0
Brinjal 2.0
Okra 2.0
Cotton seed 0.2
Cotton seed oil 0.1
Dithiocarbamates (the resudue Food grains 0.2
tolerance limit are determined Milled food grains 0.05
and expressed as mg/CS/Kg and Potatoes 0.1
refer separately to the residues
Tomatoes 3.0
arising of dithiocarbamates
Cherries 1.0
Other fruits 3.0
(a) Ethylene bis-dithio-
carbamates resulting
from the use of
mancozeb mane, or
Zineb(including zineb
derived from nabam plus
zinc sulphate)
(b) Dimethy1 dithiocar-
bamates residue resulting
from the use of ferbam or Chillies 1.0
Ziram and
(c) Mancozeb
Phenthoate Food grains 0.05
Oilseed 0.03
Edible oils 0.01
Meat & Poultry basis)
0.01(fat basis)
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Phorate (sum of phorate, its Foodgrains 0.05
oxygen anslogue and their Milled foodgrains 0.01
sulphoxides and sulhones, Tomatoes 0.1
expressed as phorate)
Fruits 0.05
Oil seeds 0.05
Edible oils 0.03
Sugarcane 0.05
Milk & Milk products basis)
0.05(fat basis)
Simazine Maize Nil
Sugarcane 0.25
Pirimiphos-methy1 Rice 0.5
Food grains except rice 5.0
Milled food grains except rice 1.0
Meat & Poultry basis)
0.05(fat basis)
Alachlor Cotton seed 0.05
Groundnut 0.05.
Miaze 0.1.
Soyabeans 0.5
Alfa Nephthy 1 Acetic Acid Pine Apple 0.5
(A.N.A.)
Bitertanol Wheat 0.05
Groundnut 0.10
Captafol Tomato 5.0
Cataphydrochlorice Rice 0.5
Chlormequatchloride Grape 1.0
Cotton seed 1.0
Chlorothalonil Groundnut 0.1
Potato 0.1
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Difubenauron Cotton seed 0.2
Dodine Apple 5.0
Diuron Cotton seed 1.0
Banana 0.1
Maize 0.5
Ciytud(Sweet Orange) 1.0
Grapes 1.0
Ethephon Pine Apple 2.0
Coffee 0.1
Tomato 2.0
Mango 0.05
Fluchloraline Cotton seed 0.05
Soya beans 0.05
Malic Hydrazide Onion 15.0
Potato 50.0
Metalyxy1 Bajra 0.05
Maize 0.05
Sorghum 0.05
Methomy 1 Cotton seed 0.1
Methy 1 Chloro phenoxyacetic Rice 0.05
Acid (MCPA) Wheat 0.05
Oxydiazon Rice 0.03
Oxydemeton methy1 Food-grains 0.02
Permethrin Cucumber 0.5
Cotton seed 0.5
Soya beans 0.5
Sunflower seed 1.0
Quinolphos Rice 0.01
Pigeonpea 0.01
Cardamom 0.01
Tea 0.01
Fish 0.01
Chillies 0.2
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Thiophanatemethyl Apple 5.0
Papaya 7.0
(a) Triazophos Chillies 0.2
Rice 0.05
Cotton seed oil 0.1
Soyabeans oil 0.05
Perofenofos Cotton seed oil 0.05
Fenpropathrin Cotton seed oil 0.05
Fenarimol Apple 5.0
Hexaconazole Apple 0.1
Fenarimol Apple 0.1
Hexaconazole Apple 0.1
Iprodione Rape seed 0.5
Mustard 0.5
Rice 10.0
Tomato 5.0
Grapes 10.0
Tridemorph Wheat 0.1
Grapes 0.5
Mango 0.05
Penconazole Grapes 0.2
Myclobutanil Groundnut seed 0.1
Grapes 1.0
Sulfosulfuron Wheat 0.02
Trifluralin Wheat 0.05
Ethoxysulfuron Rice 0.01
Metolachlor Soyabean oil 0.05
Glyphosate Tea 1.0
Linuron Pea 0.05
Oxyfluorfen Rice 0.05
Groundnut oil 0.05
Carbosulfan Rice 0.2
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Tricyclazole Rice 0.02
Imidacloprid Cotton seed oil 0.05
Rice 0.05
Butachlor Rice 0.05
Chlorimuron-ethy1 Wheat 0.05
Diclofop-methy1 Wheat 0.1
Metribuzin Soyabean oil 0.1
Lambdacyhalothrin Cotton seed oil 0.05
Fenazaguin Tea 3.0
Pendimethalin Wheat 0.05
Rice 0.05
Soyabean oil 0.05
Cotton seed oil 0.05
Pretilachlor Rice 0.05
Fluvalinate Cotton seed oil 0.05
Metasulfuon-methy1 Wheat 0.1
Methbenzthiazuron Wheat 0.5
Imazethapyr Soyabean oil 0.1
Groundnut oil 0.1
Cyhalofop-buty1 Rice 0.5
Triallate Wheat 0.05
Spinosad Cotton seed oil 0.02
Cabbage 0.02
Cauliflower 0.02
Thiamethoxam Rice 0.02
Fenobucarb Rice 0.01
Thiodicarb Cotton 0.02
Anilphos Rice 0.1
Fenoxy-prop-p-ethy1 Wheat 0.02
Soyabean seed 0.02
Glyfosinate-ammonium Tea 0.01
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Clodinafop-Propany1 Wheat 0.1
Dithianon Apple 0.1
Kitazin Rice 0.2
Isoprothiolane Rice 0.1
Acetamiprid Cotton seed oil 0.1
Cymoxanil Grapes 0.1
Triadimenton Wheat 0.1
Pea 0.1
Fosetyl-Al Grapes 10
Cardamom 0.2
Isoprturon Wheat 0.1
A mixed food containing one or more of the foods in which pesticide residues are
permitted shall not contain such residues in greater amount than is permitted for the quantity of
the food or foods containing residues used in the preparation of the mixed food.
Any article of food containing the residue of two or more of the pesticides specified
unless the sum of the fractions obtained by dividing the quantity of the pesticide present by the
maximum quantity of each pesticide permitted to the present if use alone shall not exceed
unity.
6. “Microorganisms and their toxins” includes bacteria, fungi and their toxins.
i) No food shall be prepared or advertised for sale or sell ready for consumption,
which is contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms.
ii) No food shall contain bacteria in proportion greater than the proportion given
below against each item.
iii) Without prejudice to the standards laid down in these rules, whenever water is
used in the manufacture or preparation of any article of food such water shall be
free from microorganism likely to cause disease and also from chemical
constituents, which may impair health.
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MICROORGANISMS AND THEIR TOXINS
Food Total Plate Count Coliform Count Escherichia
at 370C For At 370C for Coli Count.
48 hr. Max 48 hr. Max
Pasteurized milk, 105 per g or per ml 5 per g or per ml.
Pasteurized cream
and milk powder
(including full
cream and skim
milk powder).
Ice cream. 5x104 per g 10 per g Absent in 1 g
Meat and meat 106 per g 5x10 per g
product ready for
connsumption,
excluding meat and
meat product in
hermetically sealed
containers.
Fish and fish 106per g 5x10 per g
product ready for
consumption
excluding fish and
fish product in
Infant formula. 104 per g 10 per g
Liquid whole 5x104 per ml 5x10 per g
egg, liquid egg
yolk and liquid
egg white.
Dried whole egg, 5x104 per ml 5x10 per g
Dried liquid egg
Yolk and dried
Liquid egg
white.
Note: - (1) In places where the Escherichia coli count is not specified it shall comply with
good manufacturing practice.
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Note: - (2) Salmonella and Staphylococcus shall be absent or does not exceed the permissible
limits.
7. (1) “Irradiation” means any physical procedure involving the intentional exposure of
food to ionizing radiation.
(2) “Ionizing radiation” means all radiations capable of producing ions directly or
indirectly in their passage through matter.
(3) “Irradiated food,” means articles of food subjected to radiation by
(a) Gamma rays from radio nuclides Co60 and Cs137;
(b) X-rays generated from radiation apparatus operated at or below an energy level of 5 Mev:
and
(c) electrons emitted from radiation apparatus operated at or below and every level of 10 Mev.
(d) The over all average doses absorbed by a food subjected to treatment shall not exceed ten
kilo gray (kGy).
(4) (a) No person shall import, prepare or advertise for sale or sell any food that has
been intentionally exposed to ionizing radiation unless it qualifies “The
Pakistan Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (treatment of food by
ionizing radiation) regulations 1996.
(b) Nor person shall import, prepare or advertise for sale or sell any food that has
been evidently exposed to ionizing radiation.
(5) All package of irradiated food shall bear the following declaration and logo namely:
-
“Processed by irradiation method”
“Date of Irradiation”
“Licence No”
“Purpose of Irradiation”.
8. It contains acidity in excess of the limit prescribed in rule 12.
12. Standards of nature, substance or quality of foods— An article of food Listed in
Appendix II to these Rules when not conforming to the standards shown against it shall be
deemed to be not of the nature substance or quality which it purports to be within the meaning
of section 6 (b).
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13. Mode of labelling of pre-packed food—No person, shall sell by retail or display for sale
by retail, any pre-packed food unless there appears on a label marked on or securely attached
to the wrapper or container a true statement which—
1. (a) Shall be clearly legible and shall appear conspicuously and in a prominent position on
the label and if the food is pre-packed in more than one wrapper or container, the label shall be
marked on or attached to the innermost wrapper or container and if it is not clearly legible
through the outermost wrapper or container, a label bearing a like statement shall be marked on
the outermost wrapper or container. For the purpose of this clause a “Liner” (that is to say a
plain immediate wrapping which under ordinary conditions of use would not be moved from
the next outer wrapper or container) shall not be counted as a wrapper or container;
(b) Shall specify the name of either the packer or the labeller or the manufacturer of the food
and complete address (including location) at which such person carries on business; and in the
case of imported food, the name of either the packer or the labeller or the manufacturer or the
agent as the case may be, the name and complete business address of the importer in Pakistan
and the name of the country of origin of the food;
For the purpose of this sub-rule (b)-
(i) a telegraphic or code address or an address at a post office; or
(ii) the name of the company or the trade name of the manufacturer, packer, seller on
any disc or cap or lid or other device used for sealing any package of food
shall not be sufficient;
(iii) if more than one addresses appear, the addresses shall be presumed to be that
of the manufacturer, packer of the food and one of these addresses at which
such food is packed or labelled, shall be in a prominent position and shall also
be marked by a line all around as boundary line.
(c) Shall also specify:
(i) in the case of food consisting of one ingredient, the appropriate designation of
the ingredient;
(ii) in the case of food made of two or more ingredients the common or usual name (if
any) of the food and the appropriate designation of each ingredient, and unless the quality or
proportion of each ingredient is specified, the ingredients shall be specified in the order of the
proportion in which they were used ; the ingredient used in the greatest proportion (by mass)
being specified first
Provided that—
(a) it shall not be necessary to state that the food contains water ;
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(b) where a food contains an ingredient which is made from two or more
constituents, the appropriate designations of these constituents shall be so specified that it shall
not be necessary to specify the appropriate designation of that ingredient. For the purpose of
this clause “appropriate designation” means a name or description, which shall indicate to a
prospective purchaser the true nature of the ingredient or constituents to which it is applied.
(c) Shall specify the minimum quantity of the food in the wrapper or container
expressed in terms of volumetric measure or net mass/ weight or any other measure to indicate
the quantity of the content. In the case of mass/weight measure, suitable words like ‘net’ shall
be used to describe the manner of measure declaring the net quantity of the commodity
contained in the package, the mass/weight of the wrappers and materials other than commodity
shall be excluded.
(2) Shall also bear;
(a) The license No;
(b) shall also bear a distinctive batch number or lot number or code number, either
in numerical or alphabets or in combination, representing the batch number or lot number,
code number being preceded by the words ‘Batch No. or batch or lot No.’ or lot or any
distinguishing prefix.
Provided that in case of canned food, the batch number may be given at the bottom, or on
the lid of the container, but the words “Batch No.”, given at the bottom or on the lid, shall
appear on the body;
(3) (a) In these rules, “date marking”, in relation to a package of food, means a date
permanently marked or embossed on the package or in the label on the package of any
food signifying the manufacturing date and the expiry date or the date of minimum
durability of that food as the case may be.
(b)For the purpose of sub-rule (3), the expression;
(i) “Manufacturing date” in relation to a package of food, means the date in which
the commodity is manufactured or prepacked.
(ii) “Expiry date”, in relation to a package of food, means the date after which the
food, when kept in accordance with any storage condition set out in the label of such food,
may not retain the quality attributes normally expected by a consumer.
(iii) “Date of minimum durability”, in relation to a package of food, means the date
until which the food, when kept in accordance with any storage conditions set out in the
label of such food, will retain the specific qualities for which tacit or express claim has
been made.
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(4) (a) For the purposes of these rules, only marking in clear unmistakable date, which can be
correctly interpreted by the consumer, shall constitute date marking. The marking of date in
code form for lot identification does not constitute date marking.
(b)For the purposes of sub-rule (3) and (4)
(i) “Manufacturing date” (here insert the date expressed in day, month and year or in
months and year”).
The expiry date in respect of any food shall be shown in one of the following forms;
(ii) EXPIRY DATE OR EXP DATE (here insert the date expressed in day, month
and year or in months and year”).
(iii)“USE BY (here insert the date, expressed in day, month and year or in month and
year”), or
(iv) “CONSUME BY or CONS BY (here insert the date, expressed in day, month and
year)
(v) “BEST BEFORE or BEST BEF (here insert the date, expressed in day, month
and year or in month and year)”.
Provided that where only a month of particular year is stated, it shall be presumed that the
expiry date or date of minimum durability, as the case may be, shall be by the end of that
month.
(5) The foods specified below requiring date marking when in a package intended for sale,
shall bear or have embossed, the label or elsewhere on the package, a date marking in
accordance with any of the alternatives as specified in sub rule (3) and (4).
Biscuits, bread, canned food for infants, any cereal based food for infants and children,
chocolate and its products, coconut and coconut products, edible fats and oils other than
margarine in hermetically sealed containers, food additives with a shelf life of less than 18
months infants formula, low energy form of any food which requires date marking, meat
product in non-hermetically sealed containers, Milk and milk products other than hard
cheese, non-carbonated U.H.T soft drink, nutrient supplement or preparation of nutrient
supplement sold as food, pasteurized fruit juice, pasteurized vegetable juice, peanut butter,
sauces ,bottled water, packaged drinking water and natural mineral water.
(6) Where the validity of the date marking of food to which this rule applies is dependent
upon its storage, direction of that food shall also be required to be borne on its label.
(7) No person shall prepare or advertise for sale or sell any food specified in the sub rule (5)
unless the package containing such food bear a date marking and in any of the forms as
specified in sub-rule (3) and (4).
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(8) The date marking required by its rule shall be in capital boldface lettering of a non-serif
character not smaller than 6 point.
(9) The lettering of every word on statement required by these rules shall appear in a colour
that contrasts strongly with its background.
(10) Except as otherwise provided in these rules, any word, statement, information or direction
that is required by these rules to be specified on the label of any package of food shall be
in Urdu or English script.
Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of any other language in
addition to the language required under this rule---
(11) The types used for declaration shall be of such dimension that it shall be conspicuous to a
reader and shall not be in any case less than 3 mm in height. The word ‘Synthetic’
whenever it is used shall be of the same size as used for the name of the product.
Provided that the height of types used in the declaration having an area not greater than
25 square centimeters, shall not be less than 1.0mm.
(12) The label shall not contain any reference to The Ordinance or any of these rules or any
comment on, or reference to or explanation of any particulars or declaration required by
the Ordinance or any of these rules to be included in the label which directly or by
implication, contradicts, qualifies or modifies such particulars or declaration.
(13) Words to indicate quality, superiority, or any other words of similar meaning shall not
appear on the label of any package of food.
(14) No written, pictorial, or other descriptive matter appearing on or attached to, or supplied or
displayed with any food shall include any false or misleading statement, word, brand,
Picture, or marked purporting to indicate the nature, stability, quantity strength, purity
composition, weight, origin, age, effect, or proportion of the food or any ingredient
thereof.
(15) There shall be no advertisement of any food, which is misleading or is in contravention of
the provisions of ordinance and the rules made there under.
(16) No written, pictorial, or other descriptive matter appearing on or attached to or supplied or
displayed with any food shall include the word “ Pure”, or any word of the same
significance unless the food is free from other added substances, abstraction or is of the
composition, strength and quality required under these rules.
(a) Unless specifically permitted by these rules claims for therapeutic or prophylactic
action or word of similar meaning shall not be made on any food.
(b) There shall not appear on the label of any package containing
food for sale the words “Recommended by the medical profession”
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or any words which imply or suggest that the food is recommended,
prescribed, approved by medical practitioners.
(17) (a) Unless otherwise prescribed in these rules no claim or suggestion shall be made that a
food is a source of energy unless—
(i) There is stated on the label the quantity of that food to be consumed in one day.
(ii) There is stated on the label the following statement;
“(Here state the weight of food) of this food contains (here state the weight of
protein) energy”
(iii) The amount of the food stated on the label as the quantity to be consumed in
one day yields at least 300 kcal.
(b)Unless otherwise prescribed in these rules, no claim or suggestion shall be made that a
food is a source of protein unless—
(i) There is stated on the label the quantity of that food to be consumed in one day.
(ii) There is stated on the label the following statement;
“(here state the weight of food) of this food contains (here state the weight of
protein) protein”
(iii) At least 20 per cent by weight of the calorie yield of the food is derived from
protein, and
(iv) The amount of food stated on the label as the quantity to be consumed in one
day contains at least 10 g of protein.
(18) A recipe involving the use of any food or an suggestion or pictorial illustration on how to
serve the food shall not be included on the label unless the recipe, suggestion or pictorial
illustration is immediately preceded or followed or otherwise closely accompanied by the
expression “Recipe” or “Serving Suggestion”, as the case may be, in printed letters of
minimum of 1.5 mm in height.
(19) There shall not appear on the label of any pet food any word to indicate, directly or by
implication, that the food is also fit or suitable for human consumption.
(20) (a) The use of the word “milk “ alone on any label shall be reserved exclusively for
describing milk complying with the standards laid down for milk.
(b) Any built-up product shall be so labelled as to make it clear to the purchaser
/consumer that the product is artificial and is not made solely from milk and in no
case shall the word “milk” be larger than any other word, descriptive of the product,
on the label.
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(c) There shall be written on the label of a package containing milk or milk products,
other than buffalo’s milk and the product not prepared from buffalo’s milk, in not less
than 10 point lettering, the common name of the animal which is its source.
(d) A picture of an infant or parts of an infant shall not be displayed on the label of a
package containing milk or milk product.
(e) There shall be written on the label of a package containing milk or milk product or on
the accompanying leaflet a detail instructions or direction for its preparation and
storage before and after the package has been opened.
(21) Every dealer who, in the street or other place of public resort, sells or offers or exposes for
sale, ice cream, malai-ki-baraf, khoa-ki-baraf, malai-ki-kulfi, khoa-ki-kulfi or frozen
dessert, ice-candy, kulfi or kulfa from a stall or from a cart, borrow or other vehicle or
from a basket or other container used without a staff or a vehicle shall have his name and
address along with the name and address of the manufacturer, if any, legibly and
conspicuously displayed on the stall vehicle or container as the case may be.
(22) Every container for infant formula shall-
(a) Not contain anything that may discourage breast-feeding;
(b) Contain a conspicuous notice in bold characters in the prescribed height stating the
following:-
“MOTHER’S MILK IS BEST FOR YOUR BABY AND HELPS IN
PREVENTING DIARRHOEA AND OTHER ILLNISSES”;
(c) Instead of in addition to the notice specified in clause (b), contain any other
message as may be prescribed with respect to any designated product;
(d) Neither uses expressions such as “maternalized” or “humanized” or equivalent
nor contains any comparison with mother’s milk.
(e) Not show photographs, drawings or graphics except that graphics may be used to
illustrate the correct method of prepatation;
(f) Contain the name and address of manufacturer and of wholesale distributor if a
designated product is an imported item; and
(g) Except for bottles, teats, pacifiers and nipple shields, contain appropriate
instructions in Urdu and English for the correct preparation in words and easily
understood graphics, and indicate the ingredients, composition and analysis of a
designated product, required storage conditions, batch number and expiry date,
and contain any warning as may be prescribed for the implementation of the
Protection of Breast-feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance, 2002
(23) Every container of refined vegetable oil shall bear the following label:
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(a) “…………..Refined (here insert the name of the oil) Oil”
Provided that the container of imported edible oil shall also bear the word,
“Imported” conjoined with the words “Refined (name of the oil) Oil” in uniform
lettering.
(b) Where the word “Polyunsaturated” appears on the label, the percentage of
polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids shall be written on the label of a package
containing refined vegetable oil, blended refined vegetable oil.
(24) No person shall sell powdered mixed spices except under packed condition.
(25) (a) Any Fruit syrup, fruit juice, fruit squash, fruit beverage or cordial or crush or drink
which does not contain the prescribed amount of fruit juice, shall not be described as a fruit
juice, fruit squash, fruit beverage or cordial or crush or drink as the case may be and shall be
described as a synthetic product. Every synthetic product shall be clearly and conspicuously
marked on the label as synthetic and no container containing such product shall have a label,
whether attached thereto or printed on the wrapper of such container or otherwise, which may
lead the consumer into believing that it is a fruit product. Neither the word “Fruit” shall be
used in describing such a product nor be sold under the cover of label, which carries picture of
any fruit.
(b) Carbonated water containing no fruit juice or pulp shall not have a label, which leads the
consumer into believing that it is a fruit product.
(c) Any fruit and vegetable product alleged to be fortified with vitamin “C” shall contain not
less then 40 mgm of ascorbic acid per 100 gm of the product.
14. Requirements as to the sale of pre-packed food otherwise than by retail—Every seller
who delivers any pre-packed food pursuant to a sale otherwise than by retail shall deliver
the food labelled in the manner prescribed in rule 13.
15. Special Requirements where presence of vitamins or minerals, essential amino
acids, essential fatty acids claimed. Nutrient Supplement includes any mineral, vitamin,
essential amino acid or essential fatty acid which, when added either singly or in combination
to food, improves or enriches the nutrient contents of food, subject to the provisions of rule 13.
1. The minerals, vitamins, essential amino acids and essential fatty acids given in the table
below shall be the permitted nutrient supplement.
2. No person shall sell any food to which nutrient supplement other than a permitted nutrient
supplement has been added.
3. No person shall sell, or offer for sale, any nutrient supplement other than a permitted
nutrient supplement.
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4. Every package containing food to which an essential amino acid or essential fatty acid or
both has been added shall be labelled with---
a) The name of the essential amino acid or essential fatty acid or both as the case may be,
added to the food; and
b) the amount of the added essential amino acid or essential fatty acid or both, as the case
may be, that is contained in a specific quantity to the food.
5. No label on a package containing any food shall bear a claim that such food is enriched,
fortified, vitaminized, supplemented or strengthened or shall contain any statement that may or
in likely to convey the same meaning or that the food is a source of one or more vitamins or
minerals or both, unless a reference quantity of the food as given in first column of the table-II
given below provides not less than the amount of vitamin or mineral as the case may be, given
in relation thereto in column 2 to 17 of the said table, that is derived from the source of nutrient
specified in the table I.
6. Notwithstanding sub-rule 5, the label on a package of food to which an essential amino
acid or essential fatty acid or both has been added may bear a claim that the food is enriched or
supplemented with essential amino acid or essential fatty acid or both where such claim is
made, it shall be expressed on the label in the following form. “This food is (state the quality
claim as aforesaid) with (state the amount in milligram) of (state whether essential amino acid,
essential fatty acid or both)”.
7. Where any food is claimed to possess the quality as specified in sub-rule 5 there shall be
written on the label of the package containing such food the words “this food is (state the
quality claimed as in sub-rule 5) with (state the vitamins or minerals or both and their amount
in units as expressed in table II.
8. Every package of nutrient supplement sold, intended for sale, advertised for sale, imported
as food shall be labelled with the maximum strength of the vitamin or mineral contained
therein stated measurement.
9. No preparation in the form of any vitamin, mineral shall be labelled and sold as food if the
largest recommended daily dosage of the preparation as stated on its label furnishes an amount
of vitamin or mineral which exceeds the amount specified in table III.
TABLE 1
The following nutrient supplements are permitted in food:
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1. Vitamin and mineral
Pantothenic acid
Calcium pantothenate
D- pantothenic acid
D- pantothenyl alcohol
Panthenol
Iron (III)- Casein Complex
Iron (Fe)
Carbonyl iron
Electrolytic iron
Ferric ammonium citrate
Ferric Caseinate
Ferric citrate
Ferric gluconate
Ferric phosphate
Ferric pyrosphate
Ferrous Carbonate, stabilized
Ferrous citrate
Ferrous fumarate
Ferrous gluconate
Ferrous lactate
Ferrous succinate
Ferrous Sulphate
Hydrogen reduced iron
Sodium ferric pyrophosphate
Biotin (Vitamin H)
d-biotin
Folate
Folacin
Folic acid
Phosphorus (P)
Calcium phosphate, (mono, di and tri basic)
Magnesium phosphate (di and tri basic)
Potassium phosphate (mono, and basic)
Sodium phosphate (di basic)
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Inositol
Iodine (I)
Potassium Iodate
Potassium Iodide
Sodium Iodate
Sodium Iodide
Potassium (K)
Potassium bicarbonate
Potassium Carbonate
Potassium chloride
Potassium citrate
Potassium gluconate
Potassium glycerophosphate
Potassium phosphate (mono and di basic)
Calcium (Ca)
Calcium carbonate
Calcium chloride
Calcium gluconate
Calcium glycerophosphate
Calcium lactate
Calcium oxide
Calcium phosphate (mono, di- and tribasic)
Calcium pyrophosphate
Calcium sulphate
Chloride (Cl)
Calcium chloride
Choline chloride
Magnesium chloride
Potassium chloride
Sodium chloride
Sodium chloride, iodized
Choline
Choline bitartrate
Choline chloride
Copper (Cu)
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Copper gluconate
Cupric carbonate
Cupric citrate
Cupric sulphate
Magnesium (Mg)
Magnesium carbonate
Magnesium chloride
Magnesium citrate
Magnesium oxide
Magnesium phosphate ( di basic and tri basic)
Magnesium sulphate
Manganese (Mn)
Manganese carbonate
Manganese chloride
Manganese citrate
Manganese sulphate
Sodium (Na)
Sodium ascorbate
Sodium bicarnbonate
Sodium carbonate
Sodium chloride
Sodium chloride, iodized
Sodium citrate
Sodium ferric pyrophosphate
Sodium gluconate
Sodium iodate
Sodium iodide
Sodium lactate
Sodium pantothenate
Sodium sodium phosphate (mono, di and tri basic)
Sodium sulphate
Sodium sulphate
Niacin / Nicotinic acid
Nicotinamide / Niacinamide
Pro Vitamin A
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Beta-carotene
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)
Riboflavin
Riboflavin
Riboflavin
Selenium
Sodium selenate
Sodium selenite
Milk-Protein Iron Complex (MPIC)
Taurine
Thiamine (Vitamin B1)

Thiamine chloride hydrochloride
Thiamine hydrochloride
Thiamine mononitrate
Vitamin A
Retinol (vitamin A alcohol)
Retinyl propionate
Vitamin B6
Pyridoxal
Pyridoxamine
Pyridoxine
Pyridoxine hydrochloride
Vitamin B12
Cyanocobalamin
Hydroxyconbalamin
Vitamin C
Ascorbic acid
Ascorbyl-6 –palmitate
Calcium ascorbate
Sodium ascorbate
Vitamin D
Cholecalciferol – cholesterol
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Vitamin D2 (Ergocalciferol)
Vitamin D3 (Ergocalciferol)
Vitamin E
D – alpha - tocopherol
dl – alpha - tocopherol
D – alpha – tocopherol acetate
dl – alpha – tocopherol acetate
D – alpha – tocopheryl succinate
dl – alpha – tocopheryl succinate
Tocopherol
Vitamin K
Phytylmenaquinone
Zinc (Zn)
Zinc acetate
Zinc chloride
Zinc oxide
Zinc sulphate
2. Amino acids
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Threonine
Valine
Histidine
Arginine
3. Fatty acids
Alph- linolenic acid
Arachidonic acid
Docosahexaenoic acid
Elcosapentaenoic acid
Linoleic acid
Linolenic acid
4. Nucleotides
Adenosine 5 – monophosphate
Cytidine 5- monophosphate
Guanosine 5- monophosphate
Inosine 5- monophosphate
Uridine 5- monophosphate
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Except as otherwise provided in these rules, the maximum permitted nutrient supplement shall
be governed by Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
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TABLE II
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17)
Food
Vitamin A, Vitamin A alcohol and
Vitamin B1, thiamine, hydrochloride,
Vitamin C, ascorbic acid (milligrams

pantothenyl
Niacin, niacinamide, nicotinic acid,
Vitamin E, alphatocopherol (I.U. of

thiamine mononitrade (milligrams of
Vitamin B2, roboflavin (milligrams of
Vitamin B6, pyridoxine, pyridoxal

of
alcohol (milligrams of pantothenic
Vitamin D, Vitamin D2, Vitamin D3
Vitamin B12 (micrograms of vitamin

esters, carotenes (I.U. OF Vitamin A)
Phosphorus (milligrams of phosphours)
Folic acid (Micrograms of folic acid)

nicotinamide (milligrams of niacin)
Calcium (milligrams of clacium)

(milligrams
Iodine (micrograms of iodine)

Biotin (micrograms of biotin)
Iron (milligrams of ioron)

of (I.U. of vitamin D)*
Pantothenic acid,
of ascorbic acid)
pyridoxamine
vitamin E)*
riboflavin)
riboflavin)
thiamine)
B12
Reference Quantity: 100 milliliters
Bread 500 0.21 0.33 0.42 40 2.3 6 83 4.2 150 20 2.1 150 8 0.3
Breakfast cereal (as purchased) 2,000 0.83 1.33 1.67 1.4 9.2 25 333 16.7 580 85 0.3 580 32 1.2
Condensed milk-sweetened and unsweetened; 670 0.82 0.44 0.56 16 6 3.1 8 111 5.6 190 30 2.8 190 11 0.4
Dried milk powder (Full cream or skimmed) 2,000 0.83 1.33 1,67 5 9.2
5.83
1.94
25 333 16.7 580 85 4.3 580 32 1.2
Extract of meat or vegetable or yeast (modified or not) 12,000 5.00 8.00 10.0 55.00 150 2,000 100.0 3,500 500 50.0 3,500 192 7.2
Flour (wheat) 1,000 0.42 0.67 0.83 55 5.83
4.6 13 167 8.3 290 40 4.2 290 16 0.6
Malted milk powder 4,000 1.67 2.67 3.33 18.3 50 667 33.3 1,170 165 16.7 1,170 64 2.4
35.00
Other solid food not specified above excluding canned food for 1,000 0.42 0.67 0.83 165 4.6 13 167 8.3 290 40 4.2 290 16 0.6
2.92
infant and children and cereal based food for infants and children 1,000
11.67
85
2.29
335
85
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(c)
(a)
(b)
(1)
Food
NOTE:
directions
Reference Quantity100 milliliters
concentrate, fruit syrup, flavoured syrup (diluted according to

Liquid food including vegetable juice, fruit juice, fruit juice
Vitamin A, Vitamin A alcohol and
(2)
600
esters, carotenes (I.U. OF Vitamin A)
(3)
Vitamin B1, thiamine, hydrochloride,

0.25
thiamine mononitrade (milligrams of

thiamine)
(4)
Vitamin B2, roboflavin (milligrams of

0.40
riboflavin)
Vitamin B6, pyridoxine, pyridoxal

(5)
in column (11) 1I.U. Vitamin E is equivalent to 1 micrograms dl-alphatocopherl acetate.”.

0. 50
pyridoxamine (milligrams of
in column (2)1 I.U. Vitamin A is equivalent to 0.3 micrograms Vitamin A alcohol (rentinol);
riboflavin)
in column (10) 1 I.U Vitamin D is equivalent to 0.025 micrograms Vitamin D2/Vitamin D3; and
50
Biotin (micrograms of biotin)

(6)
NUTRIENT SUPPLEMENT
Pantothenic acid, pantothenyl

(7)
1.75
alcohol (milligrams of pantothenic

Niacin, niacinamide, nicotinic acid,
(8)
2.8
nicotinamide (milligrams of niacin)

TABLE II
Vitamin C, ascorbic acid (milligrams

(9)
of ascorbic acid)
Vitamin D, Vitamin D2, Vitamin D3

100
(10)
of (I.U. of vitamin D)*
Vitamin E, alphatocopherol (I.U. of

5.0
(11)
vitamin E)*
In places where the symbol “*” appears, it means that the substance may be expressed in milligrams or micrograms using the following conversion factor:
Calcium (milligrams of clacium)

180
(12)
25
Iodine (micrograms of iodine)

(13)
Iron (milligrams of ioron)

(14)
2.25
Phosphorus(milligrams of phosphours)
180
(15)
Folic acid (Micrograms of folic acid)

9.6
(16)
Vitamin B12 (micrograms of vitamin

0.4
(17)
B12
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TABLE III
For preparation containing nutrient supplement to be sold as food,
such preparation shall not contain any of the nutrient supplement
specified in column (1) of the Table below in excess of the amount
specified opposite thereto in column (2) of the said Table.
(1) (2)
Nutrient Supplement Maximum Recommended Daily
Allowances
Vitamin A 5,000I.U.
Vitamin D 800 I.U
Vitamin E 50 I.U
Ascorbic acid (Vit. C) 100 mg
Thiamin (Vit.B1) 2.2 mg
Riboflavin (Vit.B2) 3.2 mg
Folic acid 400 ug
Pantothenic acid 14 mg
VitaminB12 3 ug
Pyrodoxin 4 mg
Biotin 400 mg
Niacin 22 mg
Calcium 1.4grams.
Iodine 200µg
Iron 20 µg
Phosphorus 1.4 grams
16 Exemption from labelling of food—The provisions of rules 13, 14 and 15 shall not
apply to-
a) Fruit and vegetables including fruit and vegetables which have been preserved by
freezing or by gas or cold storage or by any other method of storage, but excluding fruit
or vegetables which have been canned or bottled or preserved otherwise than as
aforesaid;
b) Liquid milk (not including prepacked liquid milk);
c) Shell eggs;
d) Fish of any description, including shell fish and processed fish, but not including
canned or bottled fish or any manufactured product containing fish;
e) Any food served by a caterer as a meal or part of a meal in the course of his catering
business.
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17. Defacing of labels---No person shall remove, add to, alter deface or render illegible
any statement upon a label printed on or attached to a wrapper or container in pursuance of
rules 13, 14,15 and 16.
18. Labelling of milk and milk products:- (1) Milk –Every receptacle containing milk and
milk products shall distinctly state on a label in Urdu or English the animal from which the milk
is derived and the name in the case of prepared milk product. The label in case of glass or
earthenware vessel or metallic or plastic ware containing milk shall be a printed label, etched,
engraved on the glass or earthenware or painted thereon. The label in case of a metallic vessel
shall be a plate to be fixed on the receptacle.
(2) Sub-rule (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to “skimmed milk”.
(3) Every package containing condensed milk or any milk product shall bear a label upon
which is printed such one of the following declaration as may be applicable or such other
declaration substantially to the like effect as may be allowed by the Government
(a) In the case of condensed milk (Unsweetened)
CONDENSED MILK UNSWEETENED
This package contains the equivalent

of (x)……Liters of milk
(b)In the case of condensed milk (sweetened)
CONDENSED MILK SWEETENED

of (x)……Liters of milk with added sugar
(c) In the case of condensed skimmed milk (unsweetened)
CONDENSED SKIMMED MILK UNSWEETENED

of (x)……Liters of Skimmed milk
(d) In the case of condensed skimmed milk (sweetened)
CONDENSED SKIMMED MILK SWEETENED

of (x)……Liters of Skimmed milk with added sugar
(e) In the case of condensed milk………..should be added (sweetened and flavoured)
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This has been flavoured with ……………………..
NOT TO BE USED FOR INFANTS BELOW SIX MONTHS
(f) In the case of condensed milk / condensed skimmed milk (unsweetened) sterilized by
ultra-high temperature (UHT) treatment.
This has been sterilized by UHT process
(g) Every package containing milk for making tea /tea whitener liquid shall bear the
following label
*---------Milk for making tea / tea whitener liquid
**Contains added sugar
*Here insert the brand or trade name in the equal uniform size (lettering).
**Size of font shall be not less than 12 point lettering.
(h) Every package containing tea whitener powder / tea mix powder shall bear the
following label;
*--------- Milk powder for making tea / tea whitener powder
**Contains added sugar
** Size of font shall be not less than 12 point lettering.
(i) Frozen desserts;
There shall be written on the label of a package containing frozen dessert, “the brand or
trade name” immediately followed by the word frozen dessert contains edible vegetable
oil in the equal uniform lettering. These words shall form the first line or lines of the
label and no other word shall appear in the same line or lines and these words will be
surrounded by rectangular surrounding line.
*……………. Frozen Dessert Contains

**…………..Edible Vegetable Oil
** Source of edible vegetable oil.
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(j) In the case of milk powder
MILK POWDER
This tin contains the equivalent of (x)…………Litres of milk.
(k) In the case of milk powder which contain lecithin
MILK POWDER IN THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS

LECITHIN
(I) In the case of partly skimmed milk powder
PARTLY SKIMMED MILK POWDER

This tin contains the equivalent of
(x)…………Litres of partly skimmed milk having
….. Percent milk fat.
(m)In the case of skimmed milk powder
SKIMMED MILK POWDER

This tin contains the equivalent of
(x)…………Litres of skimmed milk having
4)) The declaration shall in each case be completed by inserting at (x) the appropriate
number in figures’ for example, “One and Half (1/ ½)”, any fraction being expressed as
eight quarters of a half, as the case may be […….].
5)There shall not be placed on any package containing condensed milk any comment on ,
explanation of, or reference to either the statement of equivalence, contained in the
prescribed declaration or on the words “machine skimmed” skimmed” or unsuitable for
babies” except instructions as to dilution as follows:
“To make a fluid not below the composition of milk or skimmed milk as the
case may be with the contents of this package, add (here insert the number of
parts) of water by volume to one part by volume of this condensed milk.
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[Sweetened condensed milk and other similar products which are not suitable
for infant feeding shall not contain any instructions for modifying them for
infant formula]
6) Wherever the word “milk” appears on the label of a package of condensed skimmed milk
or of part of the description of the contents, it shall be immediately preceded or followed by
the word “partly skimmed”, as the case may be.
7) Every package of Cheese (hard), surface treated with Natamycin, shall bear the
following label, namely:-
Surface treated with Natamycin
8) There shall be written on the label of a package containing margarine, “the brand or trade
name” immediately followed by the word margarine contains edible vegetable oil in the
equal uniform lettering. These words shall form the first line or lines of the label and no
other word shall appear in the same line or lines and these words will be surrounded by
rectangular surrounding line.
*……………. Margarine
**Contains …………..edible Vegetable Oil
* (………….) insert the brand or trade name.

**Source of edible Vegetable oil.
9) Every package containing an admixture of refined vegetable oils shall carry the following
label namely: -
This Blended refined edible vegetable oil contains an admixture of:
(i) *………………………%By weight.
(ii) *……………………..% By weight.
( *Name of refined vegetable oils)
Date of Packing……………
10) A package containing tea with added flavour shall bear the following label, namely:-
FLAVOURED TEA
11) (a) Any package containing coffee and chicory mixture shall not be labelled “French
coffee” or any other misleading expression.
(b)Any package containing coffee and chicory mixture shall have affixed to it a label
upon which shall be printed the following declaration.
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Coffee blended with chicory
This mixture contains:
Coffee per cent.
Chicory per cent.
12) Every container or package of flavour emulsion and flavour paste meant for use in
carbonated or non-carbonated beverages shall carry the following declaration, in addition to
the instruction for dilution, namely:-
“FLAVOUR EMULSION AND FLAVOUR PASTE FOR USE IN

CARBONATED OR NON-CARBONATED BEVERAGES ONLH”
13) Every package containing atta/maida treated with improver or bleaching agents shall
carry the following label, namely:
WHEAT FLOUR TREATED WITH IMPROVER/

BLEACHING AGENTS.
TO BE USED BY BAKERIES ONLY
14) Every package of Dried Glucose Syrup containing sulpherdioxide exceeding 40ppm,
shall bear the following:-
DRIED GLUCOSE SYRUP

FOR USE IN SUGAR CONFECTIONERY ONLY
15) Every package of chewing tobacco shall bear the following label, namely:-
“Chewing of tobacco is injurious to health”
16) Every package of food which is permitted to contain a artificial sweetener mentioned in
rule 10 , shall carry the following label, namely:-
(i) This ….(Name of food ) contains…..(Name of artificial

sweetener)
(ii) Not recommended for children
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(iii) No sugar added in the product
(iv) Not for phenylketoneuries ( if aspartame is added)
17)Every package of Aspertame (Methyl ester), Acesulfame-K and Saccharin Sodium

marketed as Table Top Sweetener and every advertisement for such Table Top Sweetener
shall carry the following label, namely:-
(i) Contain…...….(Name of artificial sweetener)

(ii) Not recommended for children;
Provided that the package of aspartame (Methyl ester) marketed as Table Top
Sweetener and every advertisement for such Table Top Sweetener shall also carry the
following label, namely:-
“Not for Phenylketoneurics”
18) Every package of Pan Masala and advertisement relating thereto shall carry the following
warning, namely:-
“Chewing of Pan Masala is injurious to health”
20) Every package containing “cinnamon” shall bear the following label:
CINNAMON (DALCHINI)
21) Masala: Every package of mixed masala fried in oil shall bear the following label:-
MIXED MASALA (FRIED)

THIS MASALA HAS BEEN
FRIED IN ………………..
(Name of the edible oil used)
22) Every package of drinking water shall carry the following declaration in capital letters
having the size of each letter as prescribed in rule 13.
Packaged drinking water
One time usable plastic / pet bottles of packaged drinking water shall carry the
following declaration.
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CRUSH THE BOTTLE AFTER USE
23) Every package of mineral water shall carry the following declaration in capital letters
having the size of each letter as prescribed in rule 13.
NATURAL MINERAL WATER
One time usable plastic / pet bottles of packaged drinking water shall carry the
following declaration.
24)Every package of fruit squash by whatever name it is sold, containing additional sodium
or potassium salt shall bear the following label, namely:-
“IT CONTAINS ADDITIONAL SODIUM /POTASSIUM

SALT”
25) Every package of synthetic food colour preparation and mixture shall bear a label upon
which is printed a declaration giving the percentage of total dye content.
26) Every advertisement for and / or a package of food containing added Monosodium
Glutamate shall carry the following declaration, namely:-
This package of ……(name of the food) contains added

MONOSODIUM GULTAMATE:
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR INFANT BELOW-
12MONTHS
27)Every container or package of edible common salt or iodised salt containing permitted
anticaking agent shall bear the following label, namely:-
EDIBLE COMMON SALT OR IODISED SALT

CONTAINS PERMITTED ANTICAKING AGENT
* Stricke out whichever is not applicable
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28) All package of irradiated food shall bear the following declaration and logo, namely:-
PROCESSED BY IRRADIATION METHOD /

DATE OF IRRADIATION /
lOGO
LICENCE NO/
PURPOSE OF IRRADIATION
29) Every package of food having added caffeine, shall carry the following label, namely:-
CONTAINS CAFFEINE
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19. Manner in which articles of food may be manufactured, sold or kept for sale __ (1)
Every utensil or vessel used for manufacturing, preparing or keeping any articles of food or
ingredient of food intended for sale, shall be kept at all times in good order and repair and in a
clean and sanitary condition. No such utensil or vessel shall be used for any other purpose.
(2) No person shall use for manufacturing, preparing or keeping any article of food or
ingredient of food, intended for sale, any utensil or vessel which is imperfectly enameled or
imperfectly tinned or which is made of such materials or is in such state as is likely to injure
such food or render it noxious.
(3) Every utensil or vessel containing any article of food or ingredient of food intended for
sale shall all times be either provided with a tight fitting cover or kept closed or covered by a
properly fitting lid or by a close fitting cover of gauze, net or other material of a texture
sufficiently fine to protect the article of food or ingredient of food completely from dirt, flies
and other insects.
(4) No utensil or vessel for the manufacture or preparation of or containing any article of food
or ingredient of food intended for sale shall be kept in any place in which such utensil or vessel
is likely by reason of impure air or dust or any offensive noxious or deleterious gas or
substance or any noxious or injurious emanation, exhalation or effluvium, to be contaminated
and thereby render such food noxious.
(5) All packages, wrappers or containers, containing food meant for sale shall be of such
material as will not contaminate the food and render it noxious. Where a utensil or container
made of the following materials or metals, when used in the preparation of food shall be
deemed to render it unfit for human consumption.
i) Containers which are rusty;
ii) Enameled containers which have become chipped and rusty;
iii) Copper or brass containers which are not properly tinned;
iv) Containers made of aluminum not conforming in chemical composition to limits
prescribed by the Government.
v) Containers made of Plastic materials not conforming to limits prescribed by the
Government, used as appliances or receptacles for packing or storing whether partly
or wholly, food articles.
vi) Use of second hand tin containers for packaging of edible oils and fats.
(6) (a) All vehicles, carriers and other devices whether power or hand driven used for inter-
factory movement or transmission or ex-factory transportation of food shall be kept in all
times in good order and repairs and in a clean sanitary conditions.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in these rules, no person shall import, manufacture,
advertise for sale or sell, or use or cause or permit to be used in the preparation packaging,
storage, delivery or exposure of food for sale, any package, appliance, container or vessel
which yields or could yield to its contents toxic, injurious or tainting substance or which
contributes to the deterioration of the food.
(i) No person shall import, manufacture, advertise for sale or sell any package,
appliance, container or vessel made of enamel or glazed earthenware that is intended for
use in the preparation, packaging, storage, delivery or exposure of food for sale and is
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either capable of imparting lead, antimony, arsenic, cadmium or any other toxic substance
to any food prepared, packed, stored, delivered or exposed in it or is not resistant to acid
unless the package, appliance, container or vessel satisfies the test described in these rules.
(ii) No person shall prepare, manufacture or advertise for sale or sell or use in the
preparation, packaging, storage, delivery or exposure of food for sale, any rigid or semi
rigid package, appliance, container or vessel made of polyvinyl chloride which contains
more than 1 mg/kg of vinyl chloride monomer.
(iii) No person shall prepare or advertise for sale or sell any food in any rigid or
semi-rigid package, appliance, container or vessel made of polyvinyl chloride if the food
contains more than 0.05 mg/kg of vinyl chloride monomer.
(iv) No person shall use or cause or permit to be used, in the preparation, packaging,
storage, delivery or exposure for sale of any food, any package, appliance, container or
vessel that had been used or intended to be used for any non-food product.
(v) No person shall use or permit to be used, in the preparation, packing, delivery or
exposure for sale;
a) of any sugar, flour, any sack that has previously been used for any purpose;
b) of any edible fat or edible oil, any bottle or metal container that has
previously been used for any purposes;
c) of any food, other than packaged in an extra wrapper, any plastic bottle that
has previously been used for any purposes;
(vi) Polycarbonate container of not less 20 liter in size that has previously been
used for natural mineral water may be used for the same purpose.
(vii) Except as otherwise provided in rule 19, no person shall use or cause or
permitted to be used, in the preparation, packaging, storage, delivery or exposure for sale;
a) Of any milk, soft drink, beverage, any glass bottle that has previously been
used for another food;
b) Of any vegetable, fish or fruit, any box or crate that has previously been used
for another food.
(viii) Any glass bottle that has previously been used for beverage may be used for
the same;
(ix) Any box or crate that has previously been used for vegetable may be used in the
preparation, packaging and storage of fruit and vice versa.
(x) All stalls / shops who sold juices and drinks as loose shall serve to the consumer
in disposable container / glass.
For the purpose of paragraph (vi) and (viii) of sub-rule [(6) (b)] where a
package, appliance, container or vessel containing food bears any mark or label belonging
to another food it shall be presumed that such package, appliance, container or vessel has
been used for that particular food as shown by such mark or label.
(7). Any prepared food, ready for direct consumption on retail premises is offered, exposed
or kept for sale in such manner at the said premises that the customer may himself select
the food then___
Every such food shall be kept in properly covered metal or glass or glazed ware
receptacles or which in turn shall be kept on a suitable shelf or any other device provided
for the purpose in close proximity not to loose and such shelf or device shall be maintained
in a clean condition. A ticket or notice which indicates any additive used in the food to
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perform the function of any antioxidant, artificial sweeteners, colour, flavour enhancer or
preservative shall be displayed near the food.
20. Special provision for milk and dairy produce—No person shall offer or keep in
possession for sale or deliver for sale or supply to any person__
(a) Impure or unwholesome milk or milk drawn from animals affected with any disease
of livestock whether contagious, infectious or otherwise capable of causing the milk
to become unwholesome, and
(b) Milk drawn from animals within thirty days before or ten days after parturition or for
butter, curd or cheese-making;
(c) Milk drawn from animals shall be free from veterinary drug residues like estrogen
residue, and others.
21. Restriction on the employment on person suffering from communicable
disease__(1)No person shall allow any person suffering from communicable disease,
a) to milk animals;
b) to handle any vessel used for the reception of milk intended for sale;
c) To take part or assist in the business of dairyman, cow or buffalo keeper or vendor
of milk, or
d) To be employed in a dairy.
e) To be employed in Hotels, Restaurants, and Food Business, with respect to
offering, exposing prepared food ready for human consumption, preparing for sale
or presenting, labelling or wrapping for the purpose of sale.
(2) The person engaged in food business as specified in sub-rule (1) shall furnish
Health Certificate of his staff including himself, issued by the medical officer of
the civil hospital of the respective area in such form as may be prescribed, and
shall be renewed annually.
22. Special conditions for the manufacture of Pasteurised/ Sterilized/UHT Milk __ (1) No
person Shall designate milk or milk products as “Pasteurised” unless he complies with the
following conditions: -
(i) The milk has been retained at a temperature of not less than 162oF(72oC) for at least 15
seconds continuously and has been cooled immediately to a temperature of not more
than 40oF(4oC) in a plant approved for the purpose, or
(ii) The milk has been retained at such temperature for such period as specified by the
Government by notification for a plant-approved for the purpose, and
(iii) The milk shows efficient pasterisation as evidenced by satisfactory negative
phosphatase test, and
(iv) The milk does not show a coliform count exceeding 10 per milliliter at any time after
pasteurisation and before delivery to the consumer.
(2) No person shall designate milk as “Sterilised/UHT” unless he complies with the following
conditions: -
(i) The milk has been filtered or clarified and homogenized
(ii) The milk has been heated to and maintained at such temperature, not less than 212oF
(100oC) for a period as to ensure that it will comply with prescribed Turbidity Test.
(iii)The milk has been heated as above in such a manner that on completion of the
treatment, the receptacle was hermetically sealed.
(iv) The processing has been done in plant approved for the purpose in licensed premises.
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(v) The milk shows efficient sterilisation at any time after processing before delivery to the
consumer as evidenced by a satisfactory Turbidity Test.
(3) For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of sub-rule (1) and (2), samples may
be taken at any time and from any place subject to the following conditions--
(i) Sampling shall be done by an inspector.
(ii) When the milk is in containers not exceeding one kilogram in capacity, the sample shall
consist of one such container which shall be delivered intact to the Public Analyst.
(iii) When the milk is in containers exceeding one kilogram in capacity it shall be
thoroughly stirred before sampling. The sample shall be taken from well below the
surface of the milk.
(iv) The instruments used for stirring and sampling shall be sterile.
(v) The sample shall be poured into a sterile bottle, which shall thereupon be immediately
stopper. The part of the stopper, which may come into contact with the milk, shall be
sterile.
(vi) The bottle or other container containing the sample shall be transferred forthwith to an
insulated container for transport to the Public Analyst.
(vii) A sample shall be transported to the testing laboratory with the least possible delay and
shall be delivered to the Public Analyst on the day on which it is taken. If the sample
does not arrive on the same day it shall be discarded.
23.Conditions for appproval Pasteurisatoin / Sterlisation/ UHT Plants__No Plant shall be
approved for the purpose of pasterurisation/ Sterlisation/UHT, unless it complies with the
following conditions in addition to any other conditions with regard to the testing of
Pasturisation/sterlisation/UHT plant equipment that may be imposed in writing: -
I. All Types of pasteuriser/ sterlizer/UHT plant shall have---
(a) Indicating thermometer of approved accuracy.
(b) Recording thermometer of approved temperature and time accuracy.
(c) Phosphatase test kit for determining pasteurisation ,turbidity test apparatus and
chemicals for sterilization efficiency in field and plant laboratory.
(d) Air space thermometer.
(e) Leak-protector inlet/outlet and diversion valves.
(f) Bottles washers.
(g) Plant sanitization equipment.
II. All continuous flow pasteurisers/ sterilesers/UHT plant shall have---
(a) Indicating thermometers on pipelines.
(b) Milk flow stop, controllers and diversion lines
(c) Automatic holder heaters.
(d) Recorder controllers.
(e) Automatic vat or pocket holders.
(f) Continuous flow holder.
(g) Back flow prevention devices.
(h) Automatic time/temperature/holding recorder.
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III. All types of pasteurisation/sterlisation/UHT plants shall—
(a) Use “sanitary milk piping” for conducting milk. The piping shall be easy to clean;
(b) Use multi-use containers and equipment made of non-corrodible, non-toxic material
and so located as to be easily cleaned:
(c) Preserve recordings of automatic recording equipment for at least six months;
(d) Maintain vehicles for the transportation of milk;
(e) Maintain well equipped and adequately staffed laboratories for the daily examination
of milk; and
(f) Undertake to exclude the milk supply in respect of which reasonable cause exists to
suspect the possibility of infection or contamination.
24. Mode of marking of packages containing Banaspati, Refined Vegetable Oil/ refined
blended vegetable oil, Margarine or Fat Spread, Animal Fat (Halal)—(1) (a) Every
unopened package containing banaspati, Refined Vegetable Oil, refined blended vegetable oil,
Margarine or Fat Spread, Animal Fat exposed or transported for sale shall bear the words
“banaspati” “Refined Vegetable Oil/ refined blended vegetable oil” “margarine” “Fat Spread”,
“Animal Fat” as the case may be distinctly marked in English and Urdu.
(b) Every package in which banspati, Refined Vegetable Oil/ refined blended vegetable oil,
margarine or Fat Spread, Animal Fat is exposed for sale, by retail, shall have painted or
otherwise durably marked thereon in block types letters upon a light colour ground in Urdu and
English, the words banaspati, refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine or
fat spread or animal fat, as the case may be; the space occupied by the white ground shall not
measure less than the dimensions shown below: -
Package weight 15 kg 4"x3"
Package weight 5 kg 3"x2"
Package weight 2.5 kg 2"x1"
And below
(c) No person selling banaspati, refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine,
fat spread or animal fat shall deliver to a customer a portion of banaspati, refined vegetable oil/
refined blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat in any package, unless the
word banspati, refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or
animal fat as the case may be, is clearly printed on the outside of such package in block types
letters upon a light coloured ground in Urdu or English.
24. (2) Conditions under which Banaspati, Refined Vegetable Oil/refined blended
vegetable oil, Margarine or Fat Spread, Animal Fat (Halal), may be advertised— (a)
Every advertisement and every price or trade list advertising for sale banaspati, refined
vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat or any article of
food containing or prepared with banaspati, refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable
oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat shall specifically describe such food as banaspati,
refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat as the
case may be. No such advertisement or price or trade list shall contain any words or description
implying that the food is other than banaspati, refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable
oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat or has not been prepared with banaspati, refined
vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat.
(b) Every person selling or manufacturing banaspatti, refined vegetable oil/ refined
blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat or any food containing or prepared
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with banaspati, refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or
animal fat shall display in a conspicuous position on the premises in which he sells or
manufactures such banaspati, refined vegetable oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine,
fat spread or animal fat or such food, a sign board showing that banaspati, refined vegetable
oil/ refined blended vegetable oil, margarine, fat spread or animal fat as the case may be, is
being sold or manufactured therein.
(c) Margarine, fat spreads, butter shall only be sold in a sealed package weighing not more
than 500 grams bearing the label requirements as provided under the rules.
(d) (i) Any food which resembles ghee but not solely derived from milk fat shall not be
described on any label, invoice, voucher, advertisement, price or trade list by
any expression combining the word ghee therewith.
(ii) The use of such expressions as “Vegetable Ghee”, “Khalis banaspati Ghee”,
“Artificial Ghee”, “Natural/Pure banaspati” or “Velayati Ghee is prohibited.
24. (3). Licensing of loose sale of Banaspati___ (a) licence for loose sale of banaspati shall
be issued to a retail dealer only in Form 7.
(b) Any person who intends to sell banaspati loose or from an open package shall apply
in writing to Food Authority concerned stating the exact location of the business
premises and shall certify that__
(i) He does not hold a licence for the wholesale business of banaspati;
(ii) He will display a signboard at a prominent place on his premises bearing the
following inscription in block types letters upon a light coloured ground: -
LICENSED DEALER
FOR
RETAIL & LOOSE SALE
OF
BANASPATI
Shopkeeper’s Name---------------
Licence No.-------------------------
Licence expires on ----------------
(iii) A licence shall be issued on payment of a fee of Rs.50 and shall expire on
the
next 31st day of December, unless renewed
(iv) A licence shall be renewed on payment of a fee of Rs. 30.
(v) A licence must be renewed before the 31st day of January following the date
of
expiry, after which the licence shall be renewed on payment of a fee of
Rs.50 before the first day of March following.
24. (4) sale of loose Refined Vegetable oil/Refined Blended Vegetable oil/vegetable
oil,blended vegetable oil, The loose refined vegetable oils, refined blended vegetable
oils/vegetable oil, blended vegetable oil shall not be sold or offer for sale except sarson oil
(mustard oil), til oil (sesame oil), coconut oil, linseed oil, taramira oil.
25. Prohibition of sale of food articles: ___ (1) Storage and sale of Irradiated Food: - (a)
Save as otherwise provided in these Rules, no person shall irradiate for sale, store for sale or
transport for sale irradiated food.
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(b) No person shall manufacture, sell, stock, distribute or exhibit for sale any article of
food, including prepared food or ready to serve, irradiated food except under a licence.
Provided that no person shall manufacture, sell, stock, distribute or exhibit for sale any
article of food which has subjected to the treatment of irradiation except under a licence
from Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.
(2) (i) No person shall offer for sale or sell under any description, fruit which have been
artificially ripened by use of acetylene gas, commonly known as Carbide gas.
(ii) Reheating of ready to serve food is not permissible more than once.
(3) No person shall sell, offer, expose for sale or have in his premises for the purpose of sale
under any description food articles, which have been coated with mineral oil.
(4) No person shall store, expose for sale or permit the sale of any insecticide in the same
premises where articles of food are stored, manufactured or exposed for sale.
(5) Restriction on sale of Carbia Callosa and Honey dew—Carbia Callosa and Honey dew
shall only be sold in prepacked container,which is correctly labelled to indicate its true
character, composition (in percent) with respect to its contents, after the approval of the
Government .
(6) Manufacture of Infant Foods__ (a) an Infant Food the standard of which is not
prescribed in these Rules shall be prepared, manufactured, kept or stored for sale, or
sold or offered to sell only on approval of such article of food by the Government.
(b)The package and/or label and/or the advertisement of infant food shall not use the word
“Full Protein Food”, “Complete Food” or “Health Food”, or similar expression.
(7) Matteri/ Kesari / Chikling Vetch (Lathyrus Sativus) and its products shall not be sold or
offered or exposed for the purpose of sale.
(8) (a)There shall be no televised advertising for any product which is directed to, or seen
by, audiences composed of significant proportion of children who are too young to
understand the selling purpose of or otherwise comprehend to evaluate advertising.
(b)There shall be no televised advertising for sugared food products, which is
directed to, or seen by audiences composed of significant proportion of elder
children, the consumption of such products poses the most serious dental health
risks.
(9) (a) No person shall import any article of food, which is prohibited by the Law of the
country of origin from which it is exported.
(b) No person shall import, export, prepare, manufacture, keep or store for sale any
food unless the Rules providing for the mode of its manufacture, processing or
preparation, packaging, labeling, consignment, delivery, standard of quality, or bill of
containers have been complied with; the importation of any food which does not
comply with the provisions of this rule is prohibited.
(c) No food shall be sold or offer for sale which is specifically labelled as “export
goods”, “export quality”, any word conjoined with the word “export”, or/ and similar
expression.
26. Offences by Companies: - (1) where an offence under the Rules has been committed by
a company: -
(a) (i) The person, if any, who has been nominated under the Rules to be in
charge of and responsible to the company for the conduct of the business of the
company (hereafter in the Rules to be referred as the person responsible).
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(ii) where no person has been so nominated, every person who at the time the
offence was committed was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company
for the conduct of the business of the company; and
(b)The company:
shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded
against and punished accordingly.
Provided that nothing in this rule shall render any such person liable to any punishment
provided in the Rules if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and
that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
(2) Any company may by order in writing, authorize any of its directors or managers (such
manager being employed mainly in a managerial or supervisory capacity) to exercise all such
powers and take all such steps as may be necessary or expedient to prevent the commission by
the company of any offence under the Ordinance and may give notice to the Food Authority, in
such form and in such manner (Form No.11) that it has nominated such director or manager as
the person responsible, along with the written consent of such director or manager for being so
nominated.
Explanation: Where a company has different establishments or branches or different units in
any establishment or branch, different persons may be nominated in relation to different
establishments or branches or units and the person nominated in relation to any establishment,
branch or unit shall be deemed to be the person responsible in respect of such establishment,
branch or unit.
(3) The person nominated under sub-rule 2 shall, until: -
(i) Further notice canceling such nomination is received from the company by the Food
Authority; or
(ii) He ceased to be a director or, as the case may be, manager of the company; or
(iii) He makes a request in writing to the Food Authority under intimation to the company,
to cancel the nomination, which request shall be complied with by the Food
Authority;
Whichever is the earliest, continue to be the person responsible;
Provided that where such person ceases to be Director or, as the case may be, manager of
the company, he shall intimate the fact of such cesser to Food Authority;
Provided further that such person makes a request under clause (iii), and the Food
Authority shall not cancel such nomination with effect from a date earlier than the date on
which the request is made.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-rules, where an offence under
the Ordinance and the rules framed thereunder has been committed by a company and it is
proved that the offence has committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to,
any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company,
(not being a person nominated under sub-rule) such director, manager, secretary or other
officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded
against and punished with accordingly.
Explanation:- For the purpose of this Rule:-
(a) “company” means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of
individuals;
(b) “director” in relation to affirm, means a partner in the firm; and
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(c) “manager” in relation to a company engaged in hotel industry, includes the person in
charge of the catering department of any hotel managed or run by it.
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27. Licensing of food trades businesses and premises— (1) For the purposes of licensing,
the premises shall be divided into the following categories: __
(a) Premises for the business of wholesale dealers in margarine, banaspati, fat spreads,
animal fat (Halal), ghee, fish oil, edible oils, spices, confectionary, cereal products, soft drinks
aerated water and cold storages.
(b) Creameries, dairies, dairy farms, bakeries, hotels, eating houses and other small scale
food manufacturing concerns.
(c) Premises for the manufacture or preparation of---
i) Pasteurised / Sterelized / UHT milk, milk powder, condensed and evaporated
milk, cheese and any other milk products
ii) Edible oils, margarine and banaspati.
iii) Biscuits.
iv) Canned foods
v) Alcoholic drinks and beverages.
vi) Bottling factories.
vii) Sugar factories.
viii) Cereal products.
ix) Natural mineral water/Bottled drinking water.
(2) (i) For the purpose of categories (a) and (b) in sub-rule (1) the Food authority concerned
on the advice of the Executive District Officer Health as the case may be, shall be the
Licensing Authority.
(ii) For the purpose of category (c) in sub-rule (1), the Food authority concerned on the
advice of the Government Public Analyst having jurisdiction in the area, shall be the
Licensing Authority in their district including CSantonment Board.
28. Licences— (1) Any person who intends to use any place for the purpose for which a
licence is required under section 11 shall apply in writing to the licensing authority concerned
stating the purpose for which the place is intended to be used and shall submit block plans in
triplicate showing—
The actual area so intended to be used
The location at which the various operations connected therewith are to be carried on.
On receipt of such application and plans the Government Public, Analyst concerned or
the Executive District Officer Health as the case may be, shall inspect the said place and
recommend the issue of the necessary licence in Form 8, Form 10 and Form 11 if the said place
conforms to the requirements as laid down under sub-rule (13) for sale or manufacture of food.
(2) A licence may at any time be cancelled or suspended if any of the restrictions or
conditions laid down therein are infringed or evaded by the applicant to whom it was granted,
or if the said person is repeatedly convicted for infringement of any of the provisions of the
Ordinance or the rules.
(3) When any licence is cancelled or suspended or when the period for which it was granted
has expired the person to whom the same was granted, shall for the purpose of the Ordinance,
be deemed to be without such licence until the order cancelling or suspending the licence is
revoked or the licence is renewed.
(4) An application for the grant or renewal of a licence shall be accompanied by a fee of
rupees Thousand for the premises in category (a) and rupees ten Thousand for the premises in
category (b) and rupees fifty Thousand for the premises in category (c) in sub-rule (1) of rule
27.
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(5) Every licence granted under the ordinance shall be displayed at a prominent place within
the licensed premises and shall be open to inspection by Executive District Officer Health or
inspector authorised by the Food Authority.
(6) For the purposes of these rules any act or omission by any owner or occupier of any
premises in respect of which a licence has been granted, or by the manager, agent, employee
or other person engaged in or connected with the trade or business carried on in such
premises shall be deemed to be an act or ommission by the applicant to whom such licence
has been granted
(7) Any person whose application for a licence has been rejected by a Food Authority shall
have the right of appeal to the Government. Each such appeal shall be accompanied by a fee
of Rs.1000 and Government after making such enquiries as it deems necessary may grant
a licence. Such a licence shall be deemed to have been granted by the Food Authority and
shall be subject to the same terms and conditions. If on appeal a licence is granted, the fee
paid shall be refunded.
(8) No application for the renewal of any licence that has been cancelled shall be
entertained until after the lapse of a period of not less than three weeks from the date of
cancellation.
(9) Each Food Authority shall maintain a register, permanently bound and serially paged,
containing the name and addresses of licence holders and applicants for licences and the
location of their premises.
(10) Every licence shall be renewed annually and the annual renewal, and the cancellation or
suspension or imposition of a penalty shall also be recorded therein.The register shall show
the disposal of the applications and in the case of rejection, the grounds for such rejection.
(11) Each Food Authority shall provide the particulars regarding the name, address, the
nature and the location of the business for which a licence has been granted, cancelled or
suspended to the Government Public Analyst and to the Executive District Officer Health of
the area in which the premises is situated.
(12) (a) The Executive District Officer Health or a food Inspector authorised by the Food
authority, shall inspect the licensed premises of categories (a) and (b) in sub-rule (1) of rule
27.
(b) The Executive District Officer Health shall inspect the licensed premises of category
(c) in sub-rule (1) of rule 27.
(13) No person shall be granted a licence for a premise to operate a food manufacturing plant
unless he complies with the following conditions: --
The application is accompanied by a site plan and plan showing the building and
structure.
The building for housing the plant has—
a) floors constructed of concrete or other impervious material, smooth,
provided with trapped drains clean and in good repairs;
b) walls and ceilings having a smooth, washable light coloured surface,
clean and in good repair;
c) doors and windows provided with effective means to prevent the Access
of flies and to screen the outer air; the doors shall be self-closing;
d) adequate lighting on all working surfaces:
e) ventilation sufficient to avoid smoke and off odours condensing on
structures and on equipment;
f) effective means for protection from contamination from insects and
rodents;
g) toilet rooms wherever provided shall bear a sign and having self-closing
doors, not opening into any rooms used for handling or storing of food;
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h) water supply easily accessible, adequate of and a safe sanitary quality;
i) convenient hand-washing facilities with running water, soap and towels; and
j) cold storage facilities for perishable articles.
(iii) The application shall be accompanied by a medical certificate subject to the
restrictions laid down in rule-21
(14) If the articles of food are manufactured, stored or exhibited for sale at different premises
situated in more than one local area, separate applications, shall be made and separate licence
shall be issued in respect of such premises not falling within the same local area:
Provided that the itinerant vendors who have no specified place of business shall be
licensed to conduct business within the jurisdiction of the licensing authority.
(15) “Cooked, grilled meat (mutton, beef, poultry and sea food)” means the meat cooked
or grilled in the form commonly known as Karachi Gosht, Karachi Tikka, Balti/karahi Gosht,
Tikka (chicken, mutton, beef, fish), Mutton Chop, Roast Leg; and in any other form of
similar type by whatever name it is or may be called.
(a) (i) No person shall sell or offer for sale or prepare or store for sale either directly or
indirectly, meat at any place and in any area or locality except under a licence
granted under this ordinance and at the place specified in the licence.
(ii).The meat shall be sold, offered for sale, prepared and stored for sale or offer for
sale in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the Form-10.
(b) (i) A licence shall be issued on a payment of a fee of Rs. 1,000 and in the form
appended to this Rule.
(ii) A duplicate licence shall be issued on a payment of Rs.50 if it is proved to the
satisfaction of licensing Authority that the original licence was lost or damaged in a
bona fide manner.
A licnece granted under this Ordinance unless suspended, withdrawn or cancelled earlier
by the Licensing Authority, shall continue to be in force up to the end of the calendar year in
which it is issued and shall be renewable annually on application by the licensee to the
Licensing Authority on payment of renewal fee of Rs.500. If a licensee fails to apply for
renewal of licence before the date it was due to expire, the license shall not be renewed
unless the licensing Authority is satisfied that there was sufficient cause for delay and in that
case licensee shall pay an extra penalty of Rs.250.
(i) An application for the grant of a licence shall specify
(a)The name and address of the applicants; and
(b) The location, full particulars and address of the premises for
which the licence is required. And shall be accompanied with 2
passport size photographs of the applicant.
(ii) The application for the renewal of a licence shall specify--
(a) The name of the licensee;
(b) licence number;
(c) The location and full particulars of the licensed premises; and
(d) The last date upto which the licence was valid.
An application for the grant of a licence shall, in addition, subject to the sub clauses
laid down in this rule.
An endorsement of renewal of licence shall be made on the original licence.
If any person holding a licence under the Ordinance contravenes any condition of the
licence, then without prejudice to any other action which may be taken against him, his
licence may be cancelled or withdrawn by the licensing Authority after affording the licensee
reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the proposed action.
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(16) An itinerant vendor granted a licence under these rules shall carry a metallic badge on
his arm showing clearly the licence number, the nature of articles for the sale of which the
licence has been granted, his name and address and the name, address of the owner, if any,
for whom he is working. His containers of food and the vehicle shall also be similarly
marked. In addition to the metallic badge the vendor shall, carry an identity card with his
photograph and the number of his licence issued by Food authority. The identity card shall be
renewed every year;
Provided that the whole time employees of the companies shall not be treated as
itinerant vendors for the purpose of carrying a metallic badge on their arms or obtaining
separate licences if an identity card containing particulars of the valid Local Government
licence is carried by them.
29. special conditions for Butter, Desi Ghee,Cream or Khoa Factory—(1) A licensee shall
not keep Butter, desi ghee, Cream or Khoa or permit to be kept outside the said premises of the
public road or street.
(2) No oil, margarine, banaspati, paraffin, fat, or charbi or other substance capable of being
used for the adulteration of ghee, shall be kept on the premises.
(3) No essences or colouring matters likely to give resemblance to desi ghee , butter, creamery
shall be kept on the premises.
(4) The premises shall not form part or communicate otherwise than by a public street with any
other premises upon which is kept any of the substances in sub-rule (2).
(5) All butter, Cream brought to the premises for being manufactured into desi ghee or
milk for the manufacturing of Butter, desi Ghee, cream, Khoa shall, until actually required for
such manufacture, be stored in room separate from the room or rooms in which the processes
of manufacturing, packing pressing, cleaning or preparation are carried on.
(6) All stored butter, cream, desi ghee, Khoa shall be kept in properly covered metal or glass
or glazed-ware receptacles.
(7) The process of melting shall be carried out in a properly constructed fire-place provided
with a suitable fuel.
(8) The persons used for skimming the refuse matters from the surface of the melted butter
shall at all times be kept in a clean state and shall not be placed on the floor but on a suitable
shelf or table provided for the purpose in close proximity to the fire place and such shelf or
table shall be maintained in a clean condition.
(9) The licensee shall not keep, handle or sell any butter, cream, khoa under any condition
which renders the said butter, cream, khoa liable to contamination.
(10) All coal, coke or fire wood or liquid /gas fuel to be used in the process of melting butter,
ghee or condensing milk shall be kept in suitable receptacles and not loose.
30 Special condition for Banaspati, Vegetable oil, Margarine, charbi and Animal Fat
(Halal)- (1) No substances capable of being used for the adulterations of, banaspati, Vegetable
oil, margarine charbi, or Animal fat (Halal) shall be kept on the premises.
(2) banaspati, Vegetable oil, margarine charbi, or Animal
fat(Halal)kept on the premises shall be conspicuously labelled or
durably marked as provided for in the rules.
(3) The premises shall not form a part of or communicate, otherwise than by a public street,
with any premises upon which is kept any of the substances capable of being used for
adulteration.
31. Special condition for all licensed premises--- (1) A licensee shall not keep or store on
the premises of a creamery or a dairy any condensed milk or dried milk or dried skimmed milk
or any preservative or any other substance capable of being used as an adulterant.
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(2) The adulterants shown in column II below shall be prohibited to be
stored in premises in which substances shown in column I below, are
made.
I II
Substances Adulterants
Milk Skimmed milk, any preservative condensed milk, dried milk,

whey powder or any other substance.
Desi Ghee Vegetable oil products of all kinds edible oils, hydrogenated
fish oil, coconut oil, any other vegetable oil, fat, white oil or
paraffin any mixture made of two or more of the above
articles.
Butter animal fat, margarine, vegetable oils, banaspati and other
edible oils or fats.
Tea Artificial tea, Phutri, fine chaffing of wheat or bran, or pulse,
tea sweepings
Edible oil Ghee, butter, white oil or paraffin
Fats Ghee, butter.
Coffee Chicory.
Vinegar Acetic Acid, glacial acetic acid, all colouring matters excepts
caramel, preservatives, any mineral acid.
Fruit juice &

Lime juice Tartaric, phosphoric or otherforeign acid other than cirtic
acid.
Aerated water Food Additives other than those allowed under the
Ordinance. All colouring matters except those permitted
under the rules
Syrup Artificial sweetening agents, food additives other than those
allowed under the rules. All Colouring matters except those
permitted under the rules.
32. Form of Register for the purpose of section 12 – (1) The register required to be kept
and maintained under section 12 shall be kept and maintained in the form shown
below—
(i) Front page ……Name and address of applicant.
Address of premises.
Number and date of licence.
Operation carried on.
(2) Subsequent pages:-
Disposal
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Sr
Manufactured, Prepared,
or from whom received.

No
Purchased or received
Date of sale or receipt.

Name and Address of
Date of Manufacture
Purchase or Receipt.
Nature of substance
.
Party to Whom sold

Descriptive marks
Quantity]sold or
Brand of Article
Preparation,
received.
Remarks
Quantity
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2) The prescribed register shall be maintained in the form of a permanently bound and serially
paged register and shall be kept in the place in respect of which a licence has been granted. The
register so maintained shall be open for inspection by an officer or any Inspector appointed by
the Food Authority concerned.
3) The prescribed register shall be open to inspection at any time when the business of
manufacture or sale is being carried on, or at any other reasonable time after notice to the
licensee of not less than twenty-four hours.
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33. Prevention of food poisoning ___(1) If a registered medical practitioner becomes aware, or
suspects that a patient whom he is attending within the area of any Food authority, is
suffering from food poisoning, he shall forthwith send to the Health Officer of that Food
Authority a certificate stating ___
(a) The name, age and sex of the patient and the address of the premise where the
patient is; and
(b) Particulars of the food poisoning from which he is suspected to be suffering, and
also stating whether the case occurred in the private practice of the practitioner, or
in his practice as Medical Officer of a public body or institution.
2) If the Health Officer of food authority has reasonable ground for suspecting that any
food of which he, or any other officer of the food authority of the district has procured a
sample under provisions of the Ordinance, is likely to cause food poisoning or
communicable disease, he may give notice in form 6 to the person in charge of the food
that until his investigations are completed the food or any specified portion thereof, is
not to be used for human consumption and is not to be removed except to the place
specified in the notice.
3) A person who uses or removes any food in contravention to the requirements of a
notice given under this rule shall be guilty of any offence.
4) If as a result of his investigation the Health Officer is satisfied that the food in questions
or any portion thereof, is likely to cause food poisoning, he may deal with it as food
falling within the meaning of section 5 but if he is satisfied that it may safely be used
for human consumption, he shall forthwith with draw his notice.
5) If a notice given under sub-rule (2), is withdrawn by the Health Officer or if the court
before whom any food is brought under the said sub-rule refuses to condemn it, the
food Authority shall compensate the owner of the food to which the notice relates for
any depreciation in its value resulting from the action taken by the Health Officer.
6) The Health Officer of a food authority may, by a written notice, require the person
incharge of a dairy or source of milk suspected of causing communicable disease to
stop the supply of milk from such dairy or source; provided that any person employed
in a dairy or in the mill trade as a seller, purveyor producer or in any other capacity
actually suffering from communicable disease shall be deemed as likely to cause
communicable disease.
7) The Health Officer of the food authority shall without undue loss of time collect
samples of material suspected of food poisoning and shall forward samples in cases due
to contamination of food by poisonous chemical to the Government Public Analyst, and
in cases due to bacterial infection of food to the Bacteriologist of the Government.
8) Food specimens and all pathological material so collected shall be kept as far as
applicable in an icebox or refrigerator until delivery to the Public Analyst, or the
Bacteriologist, as the case may be.
34. Power to deal with person engaged in food business suffering from communicable
disease ____ (1) Where the Medical Officer Health of Local Government /District Officer
Health is of opinion that any person engaged in selling or manufacturing any article of food is
suffering from or harbouring the germs of communicable disease, he may order him in writing
to appear before the Medical Superintendent of the area for a medical certificate that he
(Mr.__________________) is not suffering from communicable diseases.
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(2) If on such examination the Medical Officer Health/District Officer Health finds that such
person is suffering from communicable diseases he may by order in writing direct such person
not to take part in selling or manufacturing any article of food.
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35. Appointment of public analyst —
(1) No person shall be appointed to be a Public analyst unless he holds

Ph.D in chemistry or biochemistry or food technology with at least three years
practical experience in the analysis of food; if non is available then:-
M.Phil in chemistry or biochemistry or food technology with at least seven
years practical experience in the analysis of food.
(2) Nothing in this rule shall affect the appointment of public analysts made before the
coming into force of these rules.
36. Duties of Public Analyst— (1) On receipt of a package containing a sample for
analysis from an Food inspector or any other person notified under sub-rule (1) b of
rule 38, the Public Analyst or an officer authorised by him shall compare the seals on
the package and the outer cover of the sample with specimen impression received and
shall note the condition of the seals thereon.
(2) The Public Analyst shall cause to be analysed such samples of articles of food as
may be sent to him by an Inspector or by an officer authorised under the
Ordinance or by any other person notified under sub-rule (1) b of rule 38.
(3) After the analysis has been completed the Public Analyst shall within a period of
forty days from the receipt of any sample for analysis deliver or send to the Food
Authority concerned two copies of certificate in the Form specified in the
Schedule of the Ordinance showing the result of such analysis.
37. Duties of Food Authority ___ (1) It shall be the duty of every food authority to—
a) Employ one Food inspector for every 500000 population or a part thereof;
b) Insure that Food inspector seizes a minimum of 100 samples a month;
c) Insure that Ex-Officio inspector seizes a minimum of 20 samples a month;
d) Maintain permanent registers of licensees category-wise as required under sections
10, 11 and 12;
e) Ensure that food offence cases are neither with held nor compounded, without the
specific approval of the Government;
f) Maintain permanent record of the prosecution of food offenders and of the revenues
from the costs realized;
g) Enforce the provisions of the Ordinance.
h) The food authority shall, within a period of seven days of receipt of copies of the
report of the result of analysis before the persecution, forward a copy of report of the
result analysis, by registered post or by hand, as may be appropriate, to the person
from whom the sample of the article was taken by the Inspector, and simultaneously
also to the person if any, whose name, address and other particulars have been
disclosed under rule 46.
(2) Where a Food Authority fails to enforce the Ordinance for a period exceeding six
months without reasonable cause, the District Coordinator Officer may invoke the
provisions of section 35.
38. Appointment of Food inspector___ (1) No person shall be appointed to be a Food
inspector under section 16 unless he is a bachelor in science with chemistry or bachelor in
agriculture or veterinary science or bachelor in food technology from a statutory or
recognized university and shall receive three months training in food inspection and sampling
work in an institution approved for the purpose by the Government.
(2) Nothing in this rule shall affect the appointment of Food Inspector made before the
coming into force of these rules
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(3) The Health Officers in and under a Local Authority and such officers in the service of
Government, or such officer has qualification as prescribed in sub-rule 1 of this rule or as
Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf, shall be ex-
officio Inspectors in respect of all foods within the limits of their respective jurisdiction.
39. Powers of Food inspector—
A Food inspector shall---
i) at all reasonable hours, have access to all public or private sale rooms occupied or used
by merchants, brokers, wholesale dealers, or other persons, and to all public and
private warehouses, factories, stores, quays, sheds, ships or barges where food is
offered for sale, or deposited for the purpose of sale, and seize or procure samples of
any such food;
ii) seize or procure samples of any food at the place of delivery, or at any railway
station, or other place during transit, or upon the premises of or elsewhere in the
possession of any person for the purpose of carriage;
iii) seize on board any vessel or procure at the port of entry or elsewhere samples of any
food imported as merchandise;
iv) seize or procure samples of an food which he may suspect to have been sold or
intended to be sold as food not of the nature, substance, and quality as prescribed
under rule 12 ; and
v) for any of the purposes aforesaid, open any parcel box, barrel, basket, bag, case, tin or
other package in which such food may be contained.
vi) When any food, apparatus, utensil or vessel is seized under sub-section 3, it may be
destroyed by the officer making the seizure with the consent in writing of the owner
or the person in whose possession, custody or control it is found.
vii) If any food seized is of perishable nature and is, in the opinion of the Inspector,
unsound, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, it may be destroyed without
such consent but in the presence of two respectable witnesses.
40. Duties of Food inspector – (1) It shall be the duty of an Food inspector: ___
(a) To inspect frequently, as may be prescribed by the Food Authority or the Local
Authority, all establishments licensed for the manufacture, storage, or sale of an
article of food within the area assigned to him;
(b) to satisfy himself that the conditions of a licence are being observed;
(c) to procure and send for analysis, samples of any article of food which he has
reason to suspect are being manufactured, stocked or sold or exhibited for sale
in contravention to the provisions of the Ordinance or these rules;
(d) to maintain a record of all inspections made and action taken by him in the
performance of his duties, including the taking of samples and the seizure of
stocks, and to submit copies of such record to the Health Officer of the Food
Authority as directed in this behalf;
(e) to make such inquiries and inspections as may be necessary to detect the
manufacture, storage or sale of articles of food in contravention of the
Ordinance or these rules;
(f) to stop any vehicle suspected of containing any food intended for sale or
delivery for human consumption;
(g) (i) A Food inspector shall maintain the record of the court decision of each
case under clause (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 23 of Ordinance,
as the case may be, for the production as evidence of the facts contained therein
the name, address, the nature and the location of the business for which a
licence has been granted or suspended, in any enquiry, trail or other proceedings
under this Ordinance;
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(ii) Shall send a copy of the court decision of each case under this Ordinance
to the Food Authority concerned;
(h) when so authorised by the Health Officer, having jurisdiction in the local area
concerned or the Food Authority, detain an imported package, which he has
reason to suspect contains food the import or sale of which is prohibited, and
(i) to perform such other duties as may be entrusted to him by the Health Officer
having jurisdiction in the local area or the Food Authority.
(2) If any complaint is made in writing in respect of any contravention of the provisions of
the Ordinance or these rules, the Food inspector shall investigate such a complaint and
where necessary shall seize a sample in fulfillment of the requirements of section 19.
41. Fees for analysis___ (1) The fees for the analysis of samples by a Public Analyst shall
be levied in accordance with the following scales:-
Source Fee per sample

Rs.
1. Samples from private individuals or companies or foreign 1000.00

state.
2. Samples from local Government having their own 100.00
laboratories
3. Samples from local Government not having their own 30.00
laboratories
4. Water samples 500.00
5. a)Samples other than foods requiring three tests. 300.00
b) For every extra test 1000.00
6. Copying fee 50.00
7. Fee for summoning a Public Analyst, Under section 26 (2) 1000.00 Plus
traveling
Allowances.
Explanation – The expenses for the Public Analyst appearing in a court will be credited to
Government Revenues and the Public Analyst will only draw Travelling Allowance and Daily
Allowance prescribed under the West Pakistan Travelling Allowance Rules.
2) The prescribed fees shall be paid in advance to the Public Analyst in cash or
by money order or by Postal Order or through a Bank Draft, or by credit to a treasury in
the same place where the Public Analyst is stationed.
3) Any person from whom any food is purchased or obtained for purpose of
analysis, may obtain a copy of the certificate of the Public Analyst in respect of such
article on payment of a fee of Rs.50.
4) Any person who under section 19 requires an Food inspector to purchase a
sample of food for the purpose of analysis shall pay in addition to the above mentioned
scale of fees, a sum of Rs. 50; provided that the whole amount so paid shall not be
refunded if the analysis establishes that an offence under the Ordinance has been
committed or otherwise.
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42. Procedure for seizure of unsound food____ (1) If in any market, godown, shop, stall or
other place used for the sale of any food intended for human consumption or for the
preparation, manufacture or storage of any such food for the purpose of trade or sale, a Food
Inspector finds any article of food which in his opinion is or appears, to be injurious to health
or is decayed or putrefied, he shall, in the presence of two respectable persons and if
practicable of the owners of the articles or his agent or of the occupant of the premises forth
with cause the article to be seized and taken into his custody. An inventory of the article seized
and of the receptacles or utensils in which it was kept shall be prepared, and signed by the
persons witnessing the seizures, and the articles seized shall be sealed in their presence.
(2) The Food Inspector shall before sealing up the articles seized take sample thereof in
the manner prescribed in section 18.
(3) If any food seized under this rule is certified by the Public Analyst as fit for human
consumption or of the same nature, substance, or quality which it purports to be, a Food
Inspector shall not restore to the owner without the previous permission of the officer
authorized in this behalf by the Food Authority.
43. Form of order not to dispose of stock___ Where the Food Inspector decides to keep food
seized under the Ordinance in the safe custody of the vendor, he shall after sealing the stock,
make an order to the vendor to that effect in Form I and the vendor shall comply with such
order.
44. Form of receipt for food seized by a Food Inspector___ For every article of food seized
and removed by a Food Inspector under section 17, the Food Inspector respectively, shall give
sub-section 3, a receipt in Form 2 and Form 3 to the person from whom the article was seized.
45. Hours during which a Food Inspector may enter into and inspect places used for the
sale of food__ A Food Inspector may exercise the powers conferred upon him by section 17, for
the inspection of any place ordinarily used for the sale, preparation, manufacture, or storage of
any food shall be twenty four hours.
46. Method of taking sample___ (1) Every Food Inspector who seizes or procures a sample of
a food, which is consigned, to any person shall forthwith divide the same into three parts and
shall deliver or forward one of the parts to the person from whom the sample is seized or
procured. The Food Inspector shall send or submit, as the case may be, one of the other two
parts for future comparison, to the Food Authority concerned and shall submit the third part to
the Public Analyst.
(2) Every vendor of an article of food shall disclose to the Food Inspector, the name, address
and other particulars of the person from whom he purchases the article of food.
47. Packing of samples of food for analysis___ (1) Samples of food for the purposes of
analysis shall __
(a) In the case of pre-packed food, be taken in original containers as far as practicable;
(b) In the case of other food and in the case of pre-packed foods in large containers, be
placed in, clean dry bottles or jars, which shall be closed sufficiently tight to prevent
leakage or evaporation of moisture,
(c) In the case of dry or solid food it may be placed in cartons, paper bags, plastic
containers, or polyethylene bags accordingly as their nature permits.
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(2)All such bottles or jars or tins or cartons or paper bags or plastic containers or polyethylene
bags shall be labeled and then covered all round with a piece of cloth to be sewn at the ends
and sealed on the stitches, if possible, in the presence of the person from whom the sample has
been taken and of two other respectable persons, shall clearly indicate the name of the article,
the name of the vendor, the place of collection and the date and time of the taking of the
sample. A letter in Form 5 giving full particulars of the sample and enclosing a clear
impression of the seal used for packing shall be forwarded to the Public Analyst at the same
time.
(3)The sealed container of one part of the sample shall be forwarded to the Public Analyst
immediately but not later than the succeeding working day by any suitable means.
(4) The sealed container of the third part of the sample and a copy of letter in Form 5
giving full particulars of the sample shall be sent in a sealed packet to the Food Authority
concerned immediately but not later than the succeeding working day by any suitable means.
(5) A Food Inspectorshall indicate in the forwarding letter the number of times for which
the person from whom a sample has been taken was convicted for food offences previously. In
the case of a person from whom the sample has been taken for the first time, the Food
Inspectorshall indicate in the remarks column by inserting the word “New”.
48. Quantity of sample---
1) The quantity of a sample to be supplied for analysis to a Public Analyst shall not the
less than specified below: ___
Article of Food Approximate Quantity To

be Supplied.
1 Milk 250 ml
2 DesiGhee, Butter, 150 ml / gm
3 Khoa, Dahi 250gm
4 Edible oils & fats 150ml
5 Tea 125gm
6 Atta, maida, suji, basan, 200gm
7 Sugar, honey, gur, shaker or other 250gm
sweeteners.
8 Prepared food 500gm
9 Aerated Carbonated water 500 ml
10 Banaspati 500gm
11 Spices, 200gm
12 Cereal & Cereal Product(other than 250gm
atta)
13 Saffron 15gm
14 Bakery Products 500gm
15 Confectionary 300gm
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16 Ice Cream, cream, condensed milk, 250gm
cheese
17 Silver leaf 1gm
18 Baby Foods 450gm
19 Milk Powders 450gm
20 Syrup, sherbets, Fruit and Vegetable 250 ml
concentrates
21 Foods not specified. 500gm/ml
49. The Punjab Pure Food Rules, 1965 is repealed.
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APPENDIX I
THE TURBIDITY TEST
[See Rule 2(XXV)]

PROVISIONS AS TO THE TESTING OF SAMPLES OF MILK BY
MEANS OF THE TURBIDITY TESTS
1. Ammonium sulphate, analytical reagent grade, shall be used.
2. Apparatus ____
The following apparatus shall be provided
(a) A supply of conical flask, 50ml. Capacity.
(b) A supply of graduated cylinders, 25ml. Capacity.
(c) A supply of test tubes, hard glass.
(d) A supply of filter funnels, 6cm. diameter.
(e) Two beakers, 400ml. Capacity.
(f) A supply of Whatman filter papers, 12.5cm. No. 12. Or similar
3. Method of carrying out the test ____
The test shall be carried out in the following manner:-
(a) Weigh 0.1 g. of ammonium sulphate A.R. into a 50 ml. conical flask. Measure out
20±0.5ml of the milk sample, and pour into the conical flask. Ensure that the
ammonium sulphate is dissolved by shaking for three minutes. Leave for not less than
five minutes and then filter through a folded paper (whatman 12.5 cm. NO.12) into a
test tube. When not less than 5 ml of a clear filtrate have collected place the tubes in a
beaker of water, which is kept boiling and keep it therein for five minutes. Transfer the
test tube to a beaker of cold water.
(b) When the tube is cool, examine the contents for turbidity by moving the tube in front of
an electric light shaded from the eyes of the observer, and comparing each tube with a
control tube prepared as directed in the succeeding paragraph.
4. Control Tubes___ A sample of laboratory sterilized milk shall be prepared by heating milk
for at least twenty minutes after it has reached boiling point in a vessel placed in a boiling
water bath. Control tubes shall be prepared by taking a sample of laboratory sterilized milk
and subjecting it to the procedure detailed in sub-paragraph (a) of the last foregoing
paragraph.
5. Interpretation __ Milk, which shows no signs of turbidity, shall be deemed to satisfy the
test.
APPENDIX II
[See Rule 12]
12.1 MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS
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12.1.01 “Milk”, means the normal, clean and pure secretion obtained from the memory
glands of a healthy cow, buffalo, goat, camel or sheep (halal milch animals), whether boiled,
homogenized, pasteurized, sterilized or UHT and includes standardized, reconstituted milk.
Milk shall contain not less than 34 percent of milk protein in milk solids other than milk fat
and Lactose not less than 4.6 percent in milk solids other than milk fat. It shall be free from
colostrum. Milk shall not contain any added water, permitted food additive, other added
substances, traces of antibiotic substance and hormonal residue.
12.1.02 “Milk Product” means and includes cream, concentrated milk, condensed milk,
skimmed milk, separated milk, flavoured milk, milk for making tea/tea whitener, milk shake,
milk drink, dahi, yoghurt, khoa, barfi, pera, kalakand, cheese, dried milk, dried milk for
making tea/tea whitener, ice cream and any other product made by the addition of any
substance to milk or to any of the milk products and used for similar purposes. Milk Products
shall not contain any substance not found in milk unless specified in the standards.
12.1.03 “Homogenized milk” means milk which has been treated in such a manner as to
ensure break up of the fat globules contained therein to such an extent that after forty-eight
hours of quiescent storage, no visible cream separation occurs on the milk.
12.1.04 “Pasteurisation”, “pasteurised” and their grammatical variations when used to
describe a dairy product means that every particle of such product shall have been heated in
properly operated equipment to one of the temperatures specified in the table of this paragraph
and held continuously at or above that temperature for the specified time (or other time /
temperature relationship which has been demonstrated to be equivalent thereto in microbial
destruction):
Temperature Time
1450F (630C) 30 minutes
1610F (720C) 15 Seconds
1910F (880C) 1 Second
12.1.05 “Sterilisation”, “Sterilised” and similar terms shall be taken to refer to the process
of heating every particle of milk to at least 2120 F (1000C) or equivalent approved temperature-
time combination for such a period as to ensure that it will comply with the Turbidity Test as
prescribed in Appendix I to these Rules, and shall be packed in hermetically sealed containers.
12.1.06 “Ultra High Temperature milk or UHT milk” means the milk which has been
subjected to heat treatment by being retained at a temperature of not less than 1350C for at least
2 seconds to render it commercially sterile and immediately aseptically packed in a sterile
container.
There shall be written on the label of a package containing ultra high temperature milk or
U.H.T milk the words “Ultra High Temperature Milk” or “U.H.T milk”, as the case may be.
12.1.07 “Cow’s milk” shall be the milk obtained from one or more cows. It shall contain not
less than 12 percent of milk solids, and not less than 3.5 percent of milk fat, and not less 8.5
percent of milk solids other than milk fat.
12.1.08 “Buffalo’s milk” shall be the milk obtained from one or more buffaloes. It shall
contain not less than 14percent of milk solids and not less than 5.0 percent of milk fat and not
less than 9.0 percent of milk solids other than milk fat.
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12.1.09 “Goat’s milk” shall be obtained from one or more goats. It shall contain not less than
12.5 percent of milk solids and not less than 3.5 percent of milk fat and not less than 9.0
percent of milk solids other than milk fat.
12.1.10 “Sheep’s milk” shall be the milk obtained from one or more sheep. It shall contain
not less than 15 percent of milk solids and not less than 6.0 percent of milk fat and not less than
9.0 percent of milk solids other than milk fat.
12.1.11 “Camel’s milk” shall be the milk obtained from one or more camels and shall
contain not less than 12.5 percent of milk solids and not less than 3.5 percent of milk fat and
not less than 9.0 percent of milk solids other than milk fat.
12.1.12 “Standardised milk” means milk which has been reduced to the prescribed level of
milk fat by removal of fat. It shall contain not less than 9.0 percent of milk solids other than
milk fat and it shall contain not less than 12.5 percent of milk solids including 3.5 percent of
milk fat provided that the term standardized refers to the standardization of fat contents alone.
It shall be homogenized, sterilized / UHT. It shall show a negative phosphatase test, turbidity
test and methylene blue reduction test. The standardized milk shall be free from any added
non-dairy ingredients.
12.1.13 “Skimmed milk”, shall be milk from which fat has been removed by centrifugal
operation. It shall contain not less than 9.5 percent of milk solids and not more than 0.5 percent
of milk fat and not less than 9.0 percent of milk solids other than milk fat.
12.1.14 (i) “Milk” where milk other than skimmed or separated milk is sold or offered for
sale without indication as to whether it is derived from cow, buffalo, goat, camel or sheep, the
standard prescribed for buffalo milk shall apply.
(ii) “Mixed milk” means a combination of milk of cow, buffalo, sheep, goat or any
other halal milch animal. The standard prescribed for buffalo milk shall apply.
12.1.15 “Condensed milk (Evaporated) Un-sweetened” means the product obtained by

the partial removal of water from cow or buffalo milk or combination thereof by heat or by any
other process which leads to a product of the same composition and characteristics. The fat
and/or protein content of the milk may have been adjusted only to comply with the
compositional requirements given below of this standard, by the addition and /or withdrawal of
milk constituents in such a way as not to alter the whey protein to casein ratio of the milk being
adjusted. It may contain added calcium chloride, citric acid and sodium citrate, sodium salts of
orthosphophoric acid and polyposphoric acid (as linear phosphate) not exceeding 0.3 percent
by weight of the finished product. It shall conform to the following standards:
a) Milk fat Not less than 9.0 percent
b) Milk solids including milk fat. Not less than 26.0 percent
c) Milk solids other than milk fat Not less than 17.0 percent
d) Milk protein in milk solids not fat Not less than 34.0 percent
e) Titratable Acidity (as lactic acid) Not more than 0.3 percent
f) Bacterial Count per gram Nil
12.1.16 “Condensed milk (Evaporated) Sweetened” means the product obtained from cow
or buffalo milk or combination thereof or from standardized milk by the partial removal of
water and after addition of sugar. It may contain added refined lactose, calcium chloride, citric
acid, sodium salts of orthophosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acid (as linear phosphate) not
exceeding 0.3 percent by weight of the finished product. The fat and/or protein content of milk
may have been adjusted only to comply with compositional requirements given below of its
standard, by the addition and/or withdrawal of milk constituents in such a way as not to alter
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the whey protein to casein ratio of the milk being adjusted. It shall conform to the following
standards:
d) Milk protein in milk solids not fat Not less than 34.0 percent
f) Bacterial Count Per gram Not more than 500
g) Test for coliform organism Negative
12.1.17 “Condensed Skimmed milk (Evaporated Skimmed milk) Unsweetened” means

the milk product obtained by the partial removal of water from cow or buffalo skimmed milk
or a combination thereof by heat or by another process which leads to a product of the same
composition and characteristics. It may contain added calcium chloride, citric acid and sodium
salts of orthophosphoric acid (as linear phosphate) not exceeding 0.3 percent by weight of the
finished product. It shall conform to the following standards:
a) Milk fat Not more than 1.0 percent
c) Milk protein in milk solids not fat Not less than 34.0 percent
d) Titratable Acidity (as lactic acid) Not more than 0.3 percent
e) Bacterial Count Per gram Nil
12.1.18 “Condensed Skimmed Milk Sweetened (Evaporated Skimmed Milk)” means the
product obtained by the partial removal of water from cow or a buffalo skimmed milk or
combination thereof by heat or by any other process which leads to a product of the same
composition and characteristics. It may contain added calcium chloride, citric acid and sodium
salts of orthophosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acid (as linear phosphate) not exceeding 0.3
percent by weight of the finished product. It shall conform to the following standards:
a) Milk fat Not more than 1.0 percent

c) Milk protein in milk solids not fat Not less than 34.0 percent
d) Sugar Not less than 40.0 percent
f) Bacterial Count Per gram Not more than 500
g) Test for coliform organism Negative.
12.1.19 “Flavoured Milk” means milk to which has been added syrup or flavour made from
wholesome ingredients, by whatever name called, may contain nuts (whole, fragmented or
ground) chocolate, coffee or any other permitted flavour, permitted colour, with or without
other permitted food additives and sugar. It shall be boiled, pasteurized or sterilized, UHT. The
flavoured milk shall have not less than 3.5 percent of milk fat and not less than 9.0 per cent of
milk solids not fat and total milk solids not less than 12.5 percent.
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There shall be written on the label of a package containing flavoured milk, the words
“flavoured milk” or the name of the flavour conjoined with the words “flavoured milk”. These
words shall form the first line of the label and no other words shall appear in the same line.
12.1.20 (I) “Reconstituted / Recombined Milk” means the homogenized product prepared
from milk fat, non-fat milk solids and potable water. It shall conform to the following
standards.
b) Milk solids not fat Not less than 9.0 percent
c) Total milk solids Not less than 12.5 percent
d) Phosphatase activity test Negative
e) Turbidity Test Negative
f) Methylene blue Reduction test. Negative
g) Colony Count per ml Not more than 50,000
h) Test for coliform organism Negative.
(II) “Liquid milk for making tea / Liquid tea whitener” means and shall conform to
the following standards:-

b) Refractive Index of
extracted fat at 400 C 1.4524 - 1.4538
d) Turbidity Test Negative
e) Colony Count per ml Not more than 50,000
f) Test for coliform organism Negative
g) It shall be sterilized /UHT. It may contain permitted food additives not exceeding
permissible limit but shall not contain any non dairy ingredients.
h) There shall be written on the principal panel of the label just below the common name of
product that the product is not suitable for baby.
(III) Dried milk powder for making tea/ dried tea whitener means and shall conform
to the following standards:-
a) Moisture Not more than 4.0 percent

b) Milk fat Not less than 25.0 percent
c) Refractive Index of
extracted fat at 400 C 1.4524 - 1.4538
d) Milk protein Not less than 25 percent

e) Total Bacterial Count Per gram Not more than 50,000
f) Coliform count per gram Absent
g) Salmonella per gram. Absent.
h) It shall be sterilized /UHT. It may contain permitted food additives not exceeding
permissible limit but shall not contain any non dairy ingredients except sugar. The
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percentage of sugar shall be given on the principle panel of label in lettering not less than
14 just below the common name of food.
i) There shall be written on the principal panel of the label just below the common name of
product that the product is not suitable for baby.
12.1.21 “Cream / Raw Cream”, cream or raw cream means that portion of the milk of cow
or buffalo which is rich in fat and rises to the surface of milk on standing or which has been
separated by skimming or otherwise. Cream shall contain not less than 40 percent of milk fat
and shall not contain any added substance. The fat separated from cream shall conform to the
standards of ghee (milk fat).
12.1.22 “Homogenized / Pasteurized / Sterilized / UHT Cream” means cream which has
been heat- treated and has been processed in such a manner as to break up the globules of
butter fat and cause them to remain uniformly distributed throughout the milk instead of rising
to the surface. It shall not contain any added substances other than permitted emulsifiers and
permitted stabilizers. Cream shall contain not less than 40 percent of milk fat and shall not
contain any added substance. The fat separated from cream shall conform to the standards of
ghee (milk fat).
12.1.23 “Khoa” means the product derived from cow or buffalo milk by evaporation of a part
of the water from the milk by a process of heating and it shall not contain any ingredient not
found in milk. It shall contain not less than 24 percent of milk fat and not more than 33 percent
of water.
12.1.24 “Barfi, Pera, Kalakand” means the sweetmeat prepared from khoa and sugar with
or without other ingredients except starch. It shall contain not less than 10 percent of milk fat
and milk solids not fat not be less than 18 percent.
12.1.25 “Dried Milk, Milk Powder or Whole Milk Powder” It shall be the material
prepared by spray drying or roller drying of pasteurized, homogenized milk obtained from cow
or buffalo or a mixture thereof or by standardised milk by the removal of water and may
contain calcium chloride, citric acid and sodium citrate, sodium salts of orthophosphoric acid
and polyphoric acid (as linear phosphate) with a degree of polymerization up to 6 units not
exceeding 0.3 percent by weight and 0.01 percent of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) by mass
of finished product. In case of instant full cream milk powder, it may also contain mono and
diglycerides not exceeding 0.25 percent and lecithin not exceeding 0.5 percent. It may contain
permitted anticaking agent not exceeding 1.0 percent, either singly or in combination. It shall
conform to the following standards:__
a) Moisture Not more than 4.0percent
b) Milk fat Not less than 26.0percent
c) Total milk solids Not less than 95 percent
d) Ash on dry basis. Not more than 7.0 percent
e) Milk protein in milk solids not fat Not less than 34.0 percent
f) Solubility index.
(i) Roller dried Not less than 85 percent
(ii) Spray dried Not less than 98 percent
g) Titratable Acidity(as lactic acid) Not more than 1.0 percent

h) Total Bacterial Count Per gram Not more than50,000
i) Coliform count per gram Absent
j) Salmonella per gram. Absent.
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12.1.25(a) Whey Powder” means the product obtained by spray or roller drying sweet whey
or acid whey from which major portion of milk fat has removed. Sweet whey means the fluid
separated from the curd after coagulation of milk, cream, skimmed milk or butter milk in the
manufacture of cheese, casein or similar products, principally with non-animal rennet type
enzymes. The product may contain permitted food additives. It shall conform the following
standard.
(a) Moisture Not more than 5.0 percent
(b) Milk fat Not more than 2.0 percent.
(c) Milk protein Not less than 10.0 percent.
(d) Total Ash Not more than 9.5 per cent.
(e) pH(in 10.0% solution) Not less than 5.1 per cent.
(f) Lactose content expressed as anhydrous Not less than 61.0 percent.
Lactose
(g) It shall comply with the microbiological standards prescribed in these rules.
12.1.26 “Partly Skimmed Milk Powder” It shall be the material prepared by spray drying or
roller drying of pasteurized, homogenized partly skimmed milk obtained from cow or buffalo
or a mixture thereof and may contain calcium chloride, citric acid and sodium citrate, sodium
salts of orthophosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acid (as linear phosphate with a degree of
polymerization up to 6 units) not exceeding 0.3 percent by mass and 0.01 percent of butylated
hydroxyanisole (BHA) by mass of finished product. It shall conform to the following
standards:
a) Moisture Not more than 4.0percent
b) Milk fat Not less than 1.5 percent And
Not more than 26 percent

d) Ash. Not more than 8.0 percent
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h) Total Bacterial Count Per gram Not more than50,000
i) Coliform count per gram Absent
The exact fat content shall be indicated on the label.
12.1.27 “Dried Skimmed Milk Or Non Fat Dried Milk Powder Or Skimmed Milk
Powder” means the products obtained from skimmed cow or buffalo milk or a combination
thereof by the removal of water. It may contain added calcium chloride, citric acid and sodium
citrate, sodium salts of orthophosphoric acid as linear phosphate not exceeding 0.3 percent by
weight of the finished product. It shall conform to the following standards:--
a) Moisture Not more than 4.0 percent
b) Milk fat Not more than 1.5 percent
d) Ash. Not more than 9.0 percent
h) Total Bacterial Count Per gram Not more than 50,000

i) Coliform count per gram Absent.
Note:- The following milk products are allowed for protein adjustment purposes.
Milk Retentate:- Milk retentate is the product obtained by concentrating milk protein by ultra-
filtration of milk, partly skimmed milk, or skimmed milk .
Milk Permeate:- Milk permeate is the product obtained by removing milk proteins and milk fat
from milk, partly skimmed milk, or skimmed milk by ultra-filtration.
12.1.28 “Dahi Or Curd” means the product obtained by fermentation of pasteurized or

boiled milk by wild or pure/ selected culture of lactic acid bacteria. It shall contain not less
than 5.0 percent milk fat and not less than 9.0 percent milk solids other than milk fat.
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12.1.29 “Skimmed Milk Dahi Or Curd” means the product obtained by fermentation of
skimmed milk by wild or pure/selected culture of lactic acid bacteria. It shall conform to the
standards of skimmed milk. It shall not contain milk fat not more than 0.5%.
12.1.30 “Cheese (Hard)” means the product obtained by draining after coagulation of milk
with a harmless milk coagulating agent under the influence of harmless bacterial culture. It
shall not contain any ingredient not found in milk, except coagulating agent, sodium chloride,
calcium chloride (anhydrous salt) not exceeding 0.02 percent by weight, annatto or carotene,
and may contain emulsifiers and / or stabilizers, namely citric acid, sodium citrate or sodium
salts of orthophosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acid ( as linear phosphate) not exceeding 0.2
percent by weight. Wax used for covering the outer surface shall not contain any thing harmful
to health. Hard cheese shall contain not more than 43.0 percent moisture and not less than 42.0
percent of milk fat on water free basis. It may contain 0.1 percent of sorbic acid, or its sodium,
potassium or calcium salts calculated as sorbic acid or 0.1 percent nisin either singly or in
combination.
12.1.31 “Processed Cheese” means the product obtained by heating cheese with permitted
emulsifiers and/or stabilizers namely citric acid, sodium citrate, sodium salts of
orthophosphoric acid and polyphosphoric acid (as linear phosphate) with or without added
condiments and acidifying agents namely vinegar, lactic acid, acetic acid, citric acid and
phosphoric acid. Processed cheese may contain not more than 4.0 percent of anhydrous
permitted emulsifiers and / or stabilizers, provided that the content of anhydrous inorganic
agents shall in no case exceed 3.0 percent of the finished product. It shall not contain more than
47.0 percent moisture. The milk fat content shall not be less than 40.0 percent on the water free
basis. Processed cheese may contain 0.1 percent sorbic acid or its sodium, potassium or
calcium salts (calculated as sorbic acid) or 0.1 percent of nisin either singly or in combination.
It may contain calcium chloride (anhydrous) not exceeding 0.02 percent by weight.
(a) “ Mozzarella Cheese” it shall conform to the standard of processed cheese
except milk fat which shall be not less than 45 per cent on dry basis and moisture shall be not
less than 52 per cent and not more than 60 per cent.
(b) “ Feta Cheese” it shall confirm to the standard of processed cheese except milk
fat which shall be not less than 40 per cent on dry basis and moisture shall be not less than 52
percent.
12.1.32 “Processed Cheese Spread” means a product obtained by comminuting and mixing
one or more types of hard cheeses into a homogenous, plastic mass with the aid of heat. It may
or may not contain butter, cream and butter oil, milk, skimmed milk powder, cheese, whey,
sweet butter milk or one or any of these from which part of water has been removed. It may
also contain permitted emulsifying and stabilizing agents.
It may contain one or more of the sodium/potassium salts of citric acid, phosphoric acid,
tartaric acid, lactic acid in such quantities that mass of the solids of such emulsifying agents is
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not more than 4 percent of mass of the processed cheese spread. It may contain sequestering
and buffering agents, namely, lactic acid, acetic acid, citric acid and phosphoric acid.
It may contain vegetable colouring matter such as annatto, carotene, permitted flavouring
agents and milk coagulating enzymes with or without purified calcium chloride (anhydrous
salt) and sodium citrate not exceeding 0.02 percent may be added. It may contain natural
sweetening agents namely, sugar, dextrose, corn syrup, honey, corn syrup solids, maltose, malt
syrup and hydrolysed lactose in a quantity necessary for seasoning the spices and condiments.
It may contain sodium chloride not exceeding 3 percent by weight. Processed cheese spread
may contain sorbic acid or nisin or both to the maximum extent of 0.1 percent by weight. It
shall not contain more than 60 percent moisture and milk fat content on dry basis shall not be
less than 40 percent by weight.
12.1.33 “Cottage Cheese” means the soft uncured cheese prepared from the curd obtained by
adding harmless lactic acid producing bacteria to pasteurized skimmed milk. It shall contain
not more than 70 percent moisture.
12.1.34 “Un-Named Cheese” sold without any name or classification shall contain not less
than 48 percent (w/w) milk fat on water free basis substance and not more than 39 percent
moisture.
12.1.35 “Ice Cream, Fruit Ice Cream, Sunde Ice Cream, Malai-Ki-Baraf, Khoa-Ki-
Baraf, Malai-ki-Kulfi, Khoa-Ki-Kulfi, Kulfi, Milk Kulfi, Kulfa, Cone Ice Cream” means
the pure clean frozen product made from a combination of milk or cream or other milk
products, with or without eggs, but with potable water, sugar and harmless flavouring and
harmless colouring, and with or without added stabilizer, and with or without fruit, juices, nuts,
coffee cocoa or chocolate, syrup, cakes or confections. It shall conform to the following
standards.
i. Milk fat Not less than 10 per cent.
ii Total solids Not less than 36 per cent
iii. Milk Solids not fat. Not less than 10.1 per cent.
Provided that when the ice cream contains fruit or nuts or both, the contents of milk fat may be
reduced proportionality but not less than 8.0 percent of milk fat.
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a) Ice cream ingredients shall be efficiently heat-treated either by being kept at temperature
of not less than 690C for at least 20 minutes, or not less than 740C for at least 10 minutes,
or not less than 800C for at least 15 seconds or not less than 860C for at least 10 seconds
or other equivalent time-temperature relationship and then frozen.
b) The volume of air incorporated in ice cream shall be such that the weight per unit volume
of the ice cream in its frozen condition shall be not less than 0.43 percent calculated as
gram per milliliter.
c) Where fruit, chocolate or other food is added to ice cream, or cream is externally coated,
the fruit, chocolate or other food, or coating, if it is capable of being readily separated for
the purpose of analysis, shall be deemed to be not part of the ice cream for the purpose of
determining the content of fat or the weight per unit volume.
d) No person shall import, prepare or advertise for sale or sell any ice cream, the flavour of
which is indicated by the name of a fruit, unless the ice cream contains not less than 5
percent of that fruit, or the word “flavour” is conjoined in uniform lettering, with the
name of the fruit.
e) No picture of any fruit, or expression or device (other than the name of the fruit conjoined
with the word “flavour”) that indicates, suggests or implies the presence of a fruit or fruit
juice in any ice cream shall appear on the label of any package of ice cream that does not
contain at least 5 percent of the fruit or fruit juice, as the case may be.
f) It shall comply with the microbiological standards prescribed in these rules.
12.1.36 “Frozen Dessert” means a food produced by freezing, while stirring, a pasteurized
mixture consisting of safe and suitable ingredients including, milk derived non-fat solids and
milk fat, vegetable fat, or both. It shall conform to the following standards:
i. Fat Not less than 10 per cent.
ii Total solids Not less than 36 per cent
iii. Milk Solids not fat. Not less than 10.1 per cent.
Provided that when the frozen dessert contains fruit or nuts or both, the contents of fat may be
reduced proportionality but not less than 8.0 percent of fat.
Vegetable fat/oil used in the preparation of frozen desserts shall conform to the following
standards:
I. Iodine Value (Wij’s method) Not less 80

II. Melting point Not more than 370 C.
III. It shall be free from trans fatty acids.
a) Frozen desserts ingredients shall be efficiently heat-treated either by being kept at
temperature of not less than 690C for at least 20 minutes, or not less than 740C for at least
10 minutes, or not less than 800C for at least 15 seconds or not less than 860C for at least
10 seconds or other equivalent time-temperature relationship and then frozen.
b) The volume of air incorporated in frozen desserts shall be such that the weight per unit
volume of the frozen desserts in its frozen condition shall be not less than 0.43 percent
calculated as gram per milliliter.
c) Where fruit, chocolate or other food is added to Frozen desserts, is externally coated, the
fruit, chocolate or other food, or coating, if it is capable of being readily separated for the
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purpose of analysis, shall be deemed to be not part of the Frozen desserts for the purpose
of determining the content of fat or the weight per unit volume.
d) No person shall import, prepare or advertise for sale or sell any Frozen dessert, the
flavour of which is indicated by the name of a fruit, unless the frozen dessert contains not
less than 5 percent of that fruit, and the word “flavour” is conjoined in uniform lettering,
with the name of the fruit.
e) No picture of any fruit, or expression or device (other than the name of the fruit
conjoined with the word “flavour”) that indicates, suggests or implies the presence of
a fruit or fruit juice in any frozen dessert shall appear on the label of any package of
frozen dessert that does not contain at least 5 percent of the fruit or fruit juice, as the
case may be.
f) It shall comply with the microbiological standards prescribed in these rules.
12.1.37 “Desi Ghee” is a product exclusively obtained from milk, cream or butter by means
of processes which results in almost to a removal of water and non fat solids, with an
especially developed flavour and physical structure. It shall conform to the following
standards:-
a) Moisture Not more than 0.5 percent.
b) Acid Value. Not more than 4.0 mg KOH/g oil.
c) Milk fat. Not less than 99.0 percent.
d) Peroxide value. Not more than 10.0
milliequivalents of Oxygen/Kg fat.
e) Polenske value. Not more than 2.8
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f) Refractive index at 40 C 1.4524 to 1.4538
g) Reichert value. Not less than 28
h) Kirschner value. Not less than 24.0
i) Baudouins test. Negative.
Provided that where an analyst finds that on account of minor variations in the
specifications, he must perform additional tests to arrive at a correct assessment of the
quality of a specimen he may perform additional tests such as the specific tests for various
oils and fats, the Phytosteryl Acetate Test, the Critical Temperature of Dissolution, the Ultra
Violet Fluorescence test, fatty acid profile (GLC) and others.
12.1.38 “Butter” means the substance usually known as butter, made exclusively from cow’s
or buffalo’s milk, from cream or dahi prepared from such milk, or with or without annatto or
carotene. It shall be free from any synthetic colouring matter. It may contain acidity regulator
not exceeding 0.2 percent by weight in the finished product. It shall conform to the following
standards:-
a) Milk fat Not less than 80.0 percent.
b) Water Not more than 16.0 percent.
c) Milk Solids not fat content. Not more than 2.0 percent.
12.1.39 “Milk Fat, Butter Oil, Anhydrous Milk Fat and Anhydrous Butter Oil” are fatty
products derived exclusively from milk and products obtained from milk by means of
processes which result in almost total removal of water and non fat solids. These shall conform
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to the standards of desi ghee laid down above except milk fat, which shall be not less than 99.8
percent and shall contain not more than 0.1 percent moisture and shall contain acid value not
more than 0.4 per cent.
12.1.40 “Yogurt” shall be a fermented product made by inoculating pasteurized milk to
which dried milk or dried non-fat milk solids have been added before pasteurization, with
cultures of lactobacillus bulgaricus and one or more of the following bacteria, namely,
Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bacterium yoghurti Lactobacillus
bulgaricus and one or more of such other bacteria as aforesaid shall predominate substantially
in the product. Yogurt subjected to final heat treatment shall be described as pasteurized,
sterilized or UHT as appropriate. Yogurt shall contain not less than 9.0 percent milk solid not
fat and not less than 3.5 percent of milk fat and shall not contain any non-dairy substance.
12.1.41 “Skimmed Milk Yogurt Or Non-Fat Yogurt” shall contain not more than 0.5
percent milk fat and not less than 9.0 percent of milk solids not fat.
12.1.42 “Fruit Yogurt” shall be yogurt blended together with fruit, fruit pulp, sliced fruit or
fruit juice, with or without sugar and permitted additives other than colouring matter. It shall
contain not less than 8.5 percent milk solids not fat and not less than 3.0 percent milk fat and
not less than 5 percent fruit and fruit juice.
12.1.43 “Infant Formula” means any food described or sold as an alternative for human
milk for the feeding of infants. It is a product prepared from milk of cow or buffalo or other
halal milch animals or edible constituents of halal milch animals or both including fish, or from
plant suitable for infant feeding. Infant formula prepared in accordance with the direction on
the label shall have the energy value of not less than 640Kcal and not more than 720Kcal per
liter of the product ready for consumption. The milk may be modified by the partial removal /
substitution of different milk solids; carbohydrates such as sucrose, dextrose and dextrins,
maltose and lactose; salts like phosphate and citrates; vitamins A.D.E.B group, vitamin C and
other vitamins; and minerals like Iron, Copper, Zinc and Iodine.
i) Infant formula or the ingredient used in making the formula shall not have been treated by
ionizing radiation.
ii) Infant formula shall be prepared by spray drying of the milk of Cow or buffalo or other
halal milch animal.
iii) The source of iron may be selected from “Ferrous Sulphate”, "Ferrous Citrate”, "Ferrous
fumerate”, "Ferrous Succinate”, Ferric ammonium citrate, Ferric pyrophosphate”.
iv) It shall be free from starch, preservative, antioxidants, colours and flavour except permitted
additives specified in column (1) of given below table in proportions not greater than the
maximum permitted proportion specified opposite thereto in column (2) of the said table. It
shall not have rancid taste and musty odour. Vegetable oils rich in polyunsaturated fatty
acids shall be added to partially substitute milk fat to the extent that the product shall
contain not less than 12 percent by weight of milk fat and minimum of linoleate content of
1.398 gram per 100 gram of the product. It shall conform to the following standards:-
1) Moisture. Not more than 4.0 percent
2) Total Ash. Not more than 8.5 percent
3) Ash Insoluble in Hydrochloric Acid. Not more than 0.1 percent
4) Total milk protein. Not less than 12.0 percent
5) Milk fat. Not less than 18.0 percent
6) Solubility Index Not more than 2.0 ml
7) Solubility by weight. Not less than 98.5 percent
8) Infant formula shall contain per 100 Kcal of intake the following:-
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a) Not less than 1.8 g and not more than 4 g protein of nutritional quality equivalent to
that of casein or greater quantity of other protein in proportion to its nutritional
quality. The quality of the protein shall not be less than 85 percent of that of
casein;
b) Not less than 3.3 g and not more than 6 g fat and not less than 0.3 g linoleic acid in
the form of glycerides, and α-linolenic acid shall not be less than 0.05g in the form
of glycerides
c) Total Carbohydrates not less than 9 g and not more than 14g.
d) Not less than 60 µg and not more than 180 µg vitamin A expressed as retinal;
e) Not less than 1 µg and not more than 2.5 µg. of vitamin D3;
f) Not less than 10 mg vitamin C (ascorbic acid);
g) Not less than 60 µg vitamin B1 (thiamine);
h) Not less than 80 µg vitamin B2 (riboflavin);
i) Not less than 300 µg nicotinamide;
j) Not less than 35 µg vitamin B6 Formulae with a higher protein content than 1.8 g
protein/100 Kcal shall contain a minimum of 15 µg vitamin B6 per gram protein;
k) Not less than 10 µg folic acid;
l) Not less than 400 µg pantothenic acid;
m) Not less than 0.10 µg vitamin B12;
n) Not less than 4 µg vitamin K;
o) Not less than 1.5 µg vitamin H (Biotin);
p) Not less than 0.5 mg vitamin E ( d-tocopherol compounds ) per g linoleic acid (or
per g polyunsaturated fatty acids, expressed as linoleic acid) but in no case less
than 0.7 I.U./100Kcal;
q) Niacin not less than 300 µg
r) Not less than 20 mg and not more than 60 mg sodium (Na);
s) Not less than 60mg and not more than 180mg potassium (K);
t) Not less than 50 mg and not more than 160 mg chloride (Cl);
u) Not less than 50 mg calcium (Ca) and the (Ca:P) ratio shall be not less than 1:1 and
not more than 2:1;
v) Not less than 25 mg of phosphorus and the (Ca:P) ratio shall be not less than 1:1
and not more than 2:1;
w) Not less than 5 mg magnesium (Mg);
x) Not less than 0.45 mg iron (Fe);
y) Not less than 10 µg iodine (I);
z) Not less than 35 µg copper (Cu);
aa) Not less than 0.5 mg Zinc (Zn); and
bb) Not less than 1 µg manganese (Mn);
cc) Not less than 7 mg Choline.
dd) Not less than 1 µg Selenium.
ee) Myo-Inositol not less than 4mg.
ff) L-Carnitine not less than 1.2 mg.
5) For the purpose of calculating the number of Kilocalories supplied by a food referred
to in this rule.
a) 1 g of any fat in that food shall be deemed to supply 9 Kcal;;
b) 1 g of any protein in that food shall be deemed to supply 4 Kcal;
c) 1 g of any carbohydrate in that food shall be deemed to supply 4 Kcal;
6) Isolated amino acids may be added to infant formula only to improve its nutritional
value. Essential amino acids may be added to improve protein quality, only in amounts
necessary for that purpose. Only natural L-forms of amino acids shall be used;
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7) It shall be packed in hermetically sealed, clean and sound container or in flexible pack
made from film or of the substrate made of board paper, polyethylene, polyester,
metalized film or aluminium foil in such a way to protect from deterioration. It shall be
packed in nitrogen or a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
Table
Permitted Food Additive Infant Formula
1 2
Food Additive Maximum Level In 100 ml Of The
Ready – To- Drink Products
1. Emulsifiers.
Lecithin 0.5 g
Mono and diglyecerides of 0.4 g
Edible fat and edible oil.
2. Thickeners.
Guar gum 0.1 g
Carob bean gum (Locust bean 0.1g
gum)
Distarch phosphate 0.5 g singly or in combination in Soya-based
product only.
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Acetylated distarch phosphate. 2.5 g singly or in combination in Hydrolysed
protein or Amino acid based product or Both
Phosphated distarch Phosphate
Hydroxypropyl starch
Carrageenan 0.03 g in regular milk and soya based Liquid
product only.
0.01 g in hydrolysed protein or amino acid
based liquid product or both
3. Acidulants, Alkalis and
Buffers.
Sodium hydrogen carbonate Limited by good manufacturing practices
Sodium carbonate Potassium (GMP)
hydrogen Carbonate.
Potassium citrate. Practice and within the limits for
Na and K as specified in sub- rule
Sodium citrate. 4(p) and 4(q) respectively
Potassium hydroxide.
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Potassium carbonate
Limited by Good Manufacturing Practice
Lactic acid
Lactic acid producing cultures Limited by Good Manufacturing
Citric acid. Practice.
4. Antioxidants.
Mixed tocopherols concentrates 1 mg.
L – Ascorbyl palmitate 1 mg.
12.1.44 “Infants Food” means any food described or sold as suitable for infants and shall
include the infant formula. Infant’s food other than infant formula shall not contain more than
2 percent fibre, nor any mineral substance insoluble in decinormal hydrochloric acid and shall
be free from rancidity.
Infants food shall not contain added mono sodium of L-glutamic acid, and neither nitrates nor
nitrites other than those present naturally in foods, shall be used in any preparation of infants
food.
12.1.45 “Infant Milk Formula Or Infant Preparations” means infant formulae prepared
from milk of cow or buffalo or other halal milch animal or a mixture thereof. It shall contain
not less than 50 percent of milk fat out of the total fat present. It shall comply with the standard
laid down for infant formula.
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12.2 Edible Oils, Fats (Halal) and Allied Products.
12.2.46 “Edible Oil and Fat” means any food composed of glycerides of fatty acids of
vegetable or Halal animal origin except the milk fat. Fat of Halal animal origin shall be
produced from Halal animal that is healthy at the time of slaughtering, slaughtered by Islamic
Injunction and fit for human consumption.
Edible oil and edible fat shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter,
separated water, unpleasant taste and smell, added colouring and flavouring substances,
mineral oils, any non-food grade fat or oil and shall not contain more than 10 meq/Kg of
peroxide, unless otherwise provided in these Rules.
12.2.47 “Refined Blended Vegetable Oils/ refined cooking oils/frying oils” whatever name
it is called, means blending of permissible refined vegetable oils for which standards have been
laid down in these Rules. It shall be refined, bleeched and deodourized, and shall be free from
rancidity, adulterants, sediments, suspended and other foreign matter, separated water, added
colouring and flavouring matter and mineral oils. It shall have acceptable taste and odour. It
shall contain not more than 20 percent Palmolein. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(a) Moisture Not more than 0.1 percent.
(b) Free fatty acids (as oleic acid). Not more than 0.20 mg KOH/g
(c) Unasponifiable matter Not more than 1.5 percent.

(d) Peroxide Value. Not more than 10 milliequivalents
Peroxide oxygen / Kg oil.
(e) Rancidity (Kries test)
in one inch cell on Lovibond scale. Below 1.5R
(f) Cloud Point. Below 100C
(g) Vitamin A. Not less than 33,000 I.U./Kg.
(h) Iodine Value(Wijs). Not less than 80.
(i) Saponification Value. 185-196 mg KOH/gm
(j) Flash point 0C
(pensky Marten closed method). Not less than 250 0C
(k) Colour Index in one inch cell. R=5.0 Y=50.0
12.2.48 “Cotton Seed Oil, Binola Ka Tel” means the oil obtained from clean, sound and
decorticated cotton seeds of the cultivated species of Gossypium, refined and dehydrated. It
shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter, separated water, added
colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oils. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(a) Moisture. Not more than 0.1 percent.
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(b) Refractive index (at 40 C). 1.4556 – 1.4660
(c) Saponification value. 190 – 198 mg KOH /g
(d) Iodine value(Wijs). 103 to 115
(e) Acid value. Not more than 0.5 mg KOH /g.
(f) Unsaponifiable matter. Not more than 1.5 percent.
(g) Rancidity (Kries test) in one inch cell
On Lovibond scale. Below 1.5R.
(h) Peroxide value. Not more than 10 milliequivalents

Peroxide oxygen /Kg oil.
(i) Halphen test. Positive.
(j) Bellier test (turbidity temperature acetic
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Acid method). 19.0C - 21.00C
(k) GLC Ranges of fatty acid Composition (percent)
Fatty acids. Range
C < 14 <0.1
C 14:0 0.4 –2.0
C 16:0 17 – 31
C 16:1 0.5 – 2.0
C 18:0 1.0 –4.0
C 18:1 13 –44
C 18:2 33 –59
C 18:3 0.1 –2.1
C 20:0 <0.7
C 20:1 <0.5
C 22:0 <0.5
C 22:1 <0.5
C 24:0 <0.5
(l) Contaminants.
(i) Matter volatile at 1050C Not more than 0.2 percent m/m
(ii) Insoluble impurities. Not more than 0.05 percent m/m
(iii) Soap content. Not more than 0.005 percent m/m
(iv) Iron (Fe). Not more than 1.5 percent mg/Kg.
(v) Copper (Cu) Not more than 0.1 mg /Kg
(vi) Lead (Pb). Not more than 0.1 mg/Kg
(vii) Arsenic (As) Not more than 0.1 mg/Kg.
12.2.49 “Groundnut Oil, Mong Phali ka Tel” means the oil obtained from the seeds of
peanut, groundnut (Archis hypogoea). It shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other
foreign matter, separated water, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oils. It
shall conform to the following standards:-
(i) Bellier test (turbidity temperature acetic
Acid method). 39 – 410C
(j) Colour index in one inch cell on Lovibond
Scale (Y + 10R) Not deeper than 30
Fatty acids Ranges
C<14 <0.4
C 14:0 <0.6
C 16:0 6.0 - 16
C 16:1 <1.0
C 17:0 <0.1
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C 17.1 <0.1
C 18:0 1.3 - 6.5
C 18:1 35 -72
C 18:2 13 –45
C 18:3 <0.3
C 20:0 1.0 – 3.0
C 20:1 0.5 – 2.1
C 22:0 1.0 – 5.0
C 22:1 <0.3
C 24:0 0.5 – 3.0
(l) Contaminants.
(vii)Arsenic (As) Not more than 0.1 mg/Kg
12.2.50 “Til Oil or Sesame Oil” means the oil obtained from til seed (sesamum indicum)
black, brown, white or mixed. It shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign
matter, separated water, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oils. It shall
conform to the following standards:-
(d) Iodine value (Wijs). 105 to 115
(g) Baudouin’s test Positive.
(h) Rancidity (Kries test) in one inch cell
(i) Peroxide value. Not more than 10 milliequivalents

(j) Bellier test(turbidity temperature acetic
Acid method). Not more than 220C
Fatty acids. Range.
C<14 <0.1
C 14:0 <0.5
C 16:0 7.0 - 12
C 16:1 <0.5
C 18:0 3.5 - 6.0
C 18:1 35 - 50
C 18:2 35 – 50
C 18:3 <1.0
C 20:0 1.0
C 20:1 <0.5
C 22:0 <0.5
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(l) Contaminants.
(vii) Arsenic (As) Not more than 0.1 mg/Kg
12.2.51 “Olive Oil” means the oil obtained from the ripe fruit of Olea europa,L. It shall be
clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter, separated water, added colouring
or flavouring substances or mineral oils. It shall conform to the following standards:-
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(f) Unsaponifiable matter. Not more than 1.5 percent
(h) Peroxide value Not more than 10 milliequivalents
(i) GLC Ranges of fatty acid Composition (percent)
Fatty acids Range.
Lauric acid C 12:0 Traces
Myristic acid. C 14:0 < 0.1
Palmitic acid C 16:0 7.5 - 20
Palmitoleic acid C 16:1 0.3 – 3.5
Heptadecenoic acid C 17:0 < 0.5
Stearic acid C 18:0 0.5 – 5.0
Oleic acid C 18:1 55.0 – 83.0
Linoleic acid C 18:2 3.5 – 21.0
Linolenic acid C 18:3 < 1.5
Arachidic acid. C 20:0 < 0.8
Behanic acid C 22:0 < 0.3
Erucic acid C 22:1 Traces
Lignoceric acid C 24:0 <1.0
(j) Contaminants.
(iii) Soap content. Negative.
(iv) Iron (Fe). Not more than 5.0 mg/Kg.
12.2.52 “Poppy Seed Oil” means the oil obtained from the poppy Seed (Papaver
somniferum). It shall be clear, free from rancidity suspended or other foreign matter, separated
water, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oils. It shall conform to the
following standards: -
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(g) Baudouin’s test. Positive
12.2.53 “Coconut Oil, Naryal Ka Tel” means the oil obtained from the nut kernel of Cocos
nucifera. It shall be clear, free from rancidity suspended or other foreign matter, separated
water, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oils. It shall conform to the
following standards:-
(c) Saponification value. 248 to 265 mg KOH /g
(d) Iodine value(Wijs). 7.5 to 9.5
(e) Polenske value 13 to 18
(f) Acid value. Not more than 0.5 mg KOH /g.
(g) Unsaponifiable matter. Not more than 0.5 percent.
(h) Melting point 240 C to 270C
(i) Reichert value. 6 to 8.5
(j) Rancidity (Kries test) in one inch cell
(k) Peroxide value. Not more than 5 milliequivalents

Peroxide oxygen /Kg oil
(l) Specific Gravity at 30/300C 0.915 – 0.920
(m) GLC Ranges of fatty acid Composition (percent)
Fatty acids Range
C 6:0 0.4 – 0.6
C 8:0 5 – 10
C 10:0 4.5 – 8.0
C 12:0 43 - 51
C 14:0 16 -21
C 16:0 7.5 - 10
C 18:0 2.0 - 4.0
C 18:1 5.0 - 10
C 18:2 1.0 – 2.5
C 18:3 < 0.3
C 24:1 < 0.5
(n) Contaminants.
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12.2.54 “Sarson Ka tel, Toria Ka tel , Rapeseed Oil, Mustard Oil, Rai Ka tel” means oil
obtained by a process of expression or extraction of clean and sound seeds of Brassica juncea
(Rai Ka tel)) or Brasica Napus (Toria ka tel ), Brassica rapa (compestris) (Sarson ka tel) or
mixture of these seeds. It shall be clear and free from rancidity adulterants, sediments,
suspended and other foreign matter, separated water,added colouring, flavouring substances
and mineral oils. It shall conform to the following standards:-
0
(g) Natural essential oil, (as allyl isothio-cyanate) 0.25 to 0.60 percent


oxygen /Kg oil. Peroxide
(j) Bellier Test 23.00C – 27.50C
(k) Specific Gravity at 15 / 150C 0.913 – 0.916
(l) GLC Ranges of fatty acid Composition (percent)
Fatty acids Range
C <14 <0.5
C 14:0 <1.0
C 16:0 0.5 – 4.5
C 16:1 <0.5
C 18:0 0.5 - 2.0
C 18:1 8.0 - 23
C 18:2 10 – 24
C 18:3 6.0 – 18
C 20:0 <1.5
C 20.1 5.0 - 13
C 20:2 < 1.0
C 22:0 0.2 – 2.5
C 22:1 22 - 50
C 22:2 < 1.0
C 24:0 < 0.5
C 24:1 0.5 –2.5
(m) Contaminants.
12.2.55 “Refined Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed / Mustard Oil (Canola Oil)” means the oil
obtained from the Low erucic acid oil bearing seeds of varieties derived from brassica species
of crucifierae family or from cake/ meal thereof by a process of expression (expelling) or by a
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process of solvent extraction. It shall be refined, bleached and deodourised. It shall be clear and
free from rancidity, adulterants, sediments, and suspended and other foreign matter and added
colouring and flavouring substances or mineral oils. The solid component of the seed shall
contain not less than 40 micromoles of total glucosinolates per gram of air-dry oil free solids. It
shall conform to the following standards: -
(b) Relative density (200C) 0.914 to 0.920
(c) Refractive index (at 400 C). 1.4650– 1.4730
(d) Saponification value. 182 to 193 mg KOH /g
(e) Iodine value (Wijs). 110 to 126
(f) Acid value. Not more than 0.4 mg KOH /g.
(g) Unsaponifiable matter. Not more than 1.5 percent.
(h) Crismer value. 67 to 70
(i) Rancidity (Kries test) in one inch cell
(j) Peroxide value. Not more than 10 milliequivalents
(k) Erucic acid percent of the component
Fatty acids. Not more than 5.0 percent
(l) Smoke point 0 C
(pensky Marten closed method). Not less than 232
(m) Sulfur Not more than 10 mg / Kg.
(n) Vitamin A Not less than 33,000 I.U. /Kg.
(o) Specific Gravity at 20 / 200C 0.914 – 0.920
(p) Colour in one inch cell.(Y+10) 12 maximum
(q) GLC Ranges of fatty acid Composition (percent)
Fatty acids. Range
C< 14:0 <0.2
C 16:0 2.5 – 6.0
C 16:1 <0.6
C 18:0 0.8 - 2.5
C 18:1 50 - 66
C 18:2 18 – 28
C 18:3 6.0 – 14
C 20:0 0.1 – 1.2
C 20.1 0.1 – 4.3
C 22:0 <0.6
C 22:1 <5.0
C 24:0 <0.2
C 24:1 0.2
(r) Contaminants.
12.2.56 “Linseed oil, Alsi ka tel” means the oil obtained from the seeds of Linum
usitatissimum.It shall be clear and free from rancidity, suspended and other foreign matter,
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separated water, added colouring and flavouring substances, and mineral oils. It shall conform
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(c) Sponification value. 188 to 196 mg KOH /g

12.2.57 “Sunflower Oil” means the oil obtained from the seeds of Helianthus annum. It shall
be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter, separated water, added
colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oil. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(b) Refractive index (at 400 C). 1.460 to 1.4690
(c) Sponification value. 188 to 194 mg KOH /g
Fatty acids. Range
C < 14 <0.4
C 14:0 <0.5
C 16:0 3.0 – 10.0
C 16:1 <1.0
C 18:0 1.0 - 10
C 18:1 14 - 35
C 18:2 55 – 75
C 18:3 <0.7
C 20:0 <1.5
C 20.1 <0.5
C 22:0 <1.0
C 22:1 <0.5
C 24:0 <0.5
C 24:1 <0.5
(j) Contaminants.
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12.2.58 “Refined Sunflower oil” means the oil obtained from the seeds of Helianthus
annum by chemical or physical refining, bleaching and deodouring. It shall be clear and free
from rancidity, suspended and other foreign matter, separated water, added colouring and
flavouring substances, and mineral oils It shall conform to the following standards: -
0
(i) Vitamin A. Not less than 33,000 I.U./Kg.
(j) Colour index in one inch cell
On lovibond scale(Y + 10R) Not more than 25.
(k) Flash point (Pensky Marten.
Closed method) Not less than 250 0C

Fatty acid. Range
C < 14 <0.4
C 14:0 <0.5
C 16:0 3.0 – 10
C 16:1 <1.0
C 18:0 1.0 - 10
C 18:1 14 - 65
C 18:2 25 – 75
C 18:3 <0.7
C 20:0 <1.5
C 20.1 <0.5
C 22:0 <1.0
C 22:1 <0.5
C 24:0 <0.5
C 24:1 <0.5
(m) Contaminants.
12.2.59 “Taramira oil” means the oil obtained from the seeds of Eruca sativa. It shall be
clear, free from rancidity suspended or other foreign matter, separated water, added colouring
or flavouring substances or mineral oils. It shall conform to the following standards:-
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12.2.60 “Almond Oil or Badam Roghan” means the oil obtained from sweet almonds,
Prunus amygdalus Batach, Var dulcis Koehne.It shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended
or other foreign matter, separated water, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral
oil. Taste shall be bland and nutty. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(f) Rancidity (Kries test) in one inch cell
(g) Specific Gravity at 15.5 /15.50C 0.915 – 0.920

(i) Specific tests for apricot kernel oil, Negative.
Peach kernel oil, arachis oil, cotton
Seed oil, sesame and groundnut oil.
(j) Oil should remain clear after keeping
At minus 10 0 C for 3 hours and should
Not congeal until the temperature has
Been reduced to (–18 0C)
12.2.61 “Soyabean Oil” means the oil obtained from clean and sound seeds of Glycine.
Max (L) Merrill Syn. Glycine Soja Sieb and Zucc., family Leguminosae from which the major
portion of the gums naturally present have been removed by hydration and mechanical or
physical separation. It shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter,
separated water, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oil. It shall conform to
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Fatty acids Range.
C < 14 <0.1
C 14:0 <0.5
C 16:0 7.0 – 14
C 16:1 <0.5
C 18:0 3.0 – 5.5
C 18:1 18 - 26
C 18:2 50 – 57
C 18:3 5.5 - 10
C 20:0 <0.6
C 20.1 <0.5
C 22:0 <0.5
C 24:0 <0.5
(j) Contaminants.
12.2.62 “Refined Soyabean Oil” means the oil obtained from the seeds of Glycine. Max (L)
Merrill Syn. Glycine Soja Sieb and Zucc., family Leguminosae by chemical or physical
refining, bleaching, , deodourising. It shall be clear and free from rancidity, suspended and
other foreign matter, separated water, added colouring and flavouring substances, and mineral
oils. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(h) Flash point (Pensky Marten
Closed method) Not less than 300 0C
(j) Vitamin A Not less than 33,000 I. U /Kg
Fatty acids. Range
C < 14 <0.1
C 14:0 <0.5
C 16:0 7.0 – 14
C 16:1 <1.4
C 18:0 3.0 – 5.5
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C 18:1 18 - 26
C 18:2 44 – 62
C 18:3 5.5 - 10
C 20:0 <0.6
C 20.1 <0.5
C 22:0 <0.5
C 24:0 <0.5
(l) Contaminants.
12.2.63 “ Banaspati, Vanaspati” means the product obtained from any edible refined
harmless vegetable oil or mixture of oils by the process of hydrogenation, and containing no
colouring or flavouring or any matter deleterious to health. The product shall be prepared from
properly refined bleached and deodourised vegetable oils in premises maintained under
hygienic conditon when melted, the product shall be clear bright and free from sediments,
suspended foreign matter, mineral oil,unpleasant taste and aroma. It shall conform to the
(a) Moisture and Volatile Matter. Not more than 0.1 percent.
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(b) Refractive index (at 40 C). Not less than 1.4580.
(c) Melting point by capillary tube
method at complete fusion 34 0C to 38 0C
(d) Iodine value (Wijs). Not less than 70

(g) Rancidity (Kries test) in one inch cell Below 1.5R.
On Lovibond scale.
(i) Nickel. Not more than 0.25 p.p.m
(j) Vitamin A. Not less than 33,000 I. U /Kg
(k) Trans Fatty Acids contents (%). Not more than 0.5percent
Provided that where Banaspati is prepared from coconut oil, the Butyro-refractive value shall
be from 34 to 38 and the Reichert value shall be from 6 to 8 and saponification value shall be
from 240 to 250.
12.2.64 “Refined Palm Oil” means the oil obtained from fleshy mesocarp of fruits of the oil
palm (Elaeis guineesis) tree by the process of expression or solvent extraction or both. It shall
be clear, free from, suspended matter, added colouring matter or flavouring substances or
mineral oil and other adulterants.It shall be refined, bleached and deodourised in a manner that
the product so obtained shall be free from any foreign harmful matter. It shall conform to the
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On Lovibond scale Below 3R. .
(i) Melting point (Open capillary
Slip method). Not more than 370 C
(j) Vitamin A Not less than 33,000 I.U./Kg.
(k) Colour index in one inch cell
On lovibond scale(Y + 10R) Not more than 50.

Fatty acids. Range.
C 12:0 <0.4
C 14:0 0.5 – 5.9
C 16:0 32 - 59
C 16:1 <0.6
C 18:0 1.5 – 8.0
C 18:1 27 - 49
C 18:2 5.0 – 14.0
C 18:3 <0.5
C 20:0 <1.0
(m) Contaminants.
12.2.65 “Refined Palmolein” means the liquid fraction of crude/ refined palm oil obtained
from the flashy of fruits of oil palm tree (Elaeis Guineensis) by the process of expression or
solvent extraction or both. It shall be refined, deodourised in a manner that the product so
obtained shall be free from any foreign harmful matter. It shall be clear, free from suspended
foreign matter, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oil or other adulterant. It
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(i) Melting point (Open capillary
Slip method). Not more than 23 0C
(j) Vitamin A Not less than 33,000 I.U./Kg.
(k) Cloud point Not more than 10 0C.
(l) Colour Index in one inch cell (Y + 10R) 50 max.
12.2.66 “Niger Seed Oil, (Sagiya ka tel)” means the edible oil obtained by a process of
expressing clean and sound seeds of Guizotia abyssinica. It shall be clear and free from
rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter, separated water, added colouring or flavouring
matter or mineral oil or other oil. It shall conform to the following standards:-
Peroxide oxygen/Kg oil
(i) Specific gravity at 150C 0.924 – 0.927
12.2.67 “Safflower Seed Oil (barrey ka tel)” means the oil expressed from the seeds of
Carthamus tinctorius. It shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter,
separated water, added colouring or flavouring substances, or mineral oil. It shall conform to


Fatty acids. Range.
C <14 <0.1
C 14:0 < 1.0
C 16:0 2.0 - 10
C 16:1 < 0.5
C 18:0 1.0 – 10
C 18:1 7.0 - 42
C 18:2 55 – 81
C 18:3 <1.0
C 20:0 <0.5
C 20.1 <0.5
C 22:0 <0.5
(j) Contaminants.
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12.2.68 “Maize Oil (Corn)” means the oil extracted from the germ of clean and sound seeds
of Zea mays Linn, refined. It shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or foreign matter,
separated water, added colouring matter or flavouring substances or mineral oil. It shall
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(h) Peroxide value. Not more than 10 mill equivalents
(i) Colour Index in one inch cell(Y + 10R) 35 max
(j) GLC Ranges of fatty acid Composition (percent)
Fatty acids. Range.
C 12:0 < 0.3
C 14:0 < 0.3
C 16:0 9 - 14
C 16:1 < 0.5
C 18:0 0.5 – 4.0
C 18:1 24 - 42
C 18:2 34 – 62
C 18:3 <2.0
C 20:0 <1.0
C 20.1 <0.5
C 22:0 <0.5
C 24:0 <0.5
(k) Contaminants.
12.2.69 “Refined Maize (Corn) oil” means the oil extracted from the germ of clean and
sound seeds of Zeas mays Linn. Family Graminiae by chemical or physical refining, bleaching
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and deodouring. It shall be clear, free from rancidity, suspended or other foreign matter,
separated water, added colouring or flavouring substances or mineral oil and shall have
acceptable taste and odour. It shall conform to the following standards:-

(i) Vitamin A Not less than 33,000 I.U./Kg.
(j) Flash point pensky Martens
Closed method. Not less than 302 0C
(k) Colour Index in one inch cell on
Lovibond scale express as (Y + 10R) Not more than 35
(l) Specific gravity at 20 / 200C 0.915 -0.920
(m) GLC Ranges of fatty acid Composition (percent)
Fatty acids. Range.
C 12:0 < 0.3
C 14:0 < 0.3
C 16:0 9 - 14
C 16:1 < 0.5
C 18:0 0.5 – 4.0
C 18:1 24 - 42
C 18:2 34 – 62
C 18:3 <2.0
C 20:0 <1.0
C 20.1 <0.5
C 22:0 <0.5
C 24:0 <0.5
(n) Contaminants.
12.2.70 “Margarine” is plastic or fluid emulsion of refined deodourised, hydrogenated or
unhydrogenated edible vegetable oils /fats in water with or without permitted food additives.
The oils and the fats used in the production of margarine must be only of vegetable origin with
the exception of cows, buffalo’s milk fat. No other animal oils & fats shall be used in
margarine. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Specific gravity at 37.80C 0.910- 0.913
(c) Moisture 12 - 16 percent.
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(d) Milk fat. Not more than 10 percent.
(e) Total fat. Not less than 80 percent.
(f) Melting point of extracted fat. 31 0C to 37 0C
(g) Vitamin A. Not less than 33,000 I.U./Kg of the
Pinished product.
(h) Acid value of extracted fat.. Not more than 0.5 mg KOH /g.
(i) Unsaponifiable matter of extracted fat.. Not more than 1.0 percent.
(j) Rancidity (Kries test) in one inch cell
On Lovibond scale. of extracted fat. Below 1.5R.
(k) Peroxide value of extracted fat. Not more than 10 milliequivalents

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(l) Specific Gravity at 37 C 0.910 – 0.913
12.2.71 “Animal Fat (Halal)” means the edible fat rendered from fresh, clean, sound fatty
tissues of halal animals(bovine, ovine, caprine) or a combination of these, that was healthy at
the time of slaughtering and fit for human consumption. It shall conform to the following
standards:-
(a) Specific gravity at 250C 0.903 – 0.907
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12.3 Beverages
12.3.72 “Tea” means the fermented, dried and sound processed leaves and buds of various
species of tea belonging to genus Camellia and free from tea waste and any other foreign
matter or impurities, free from any colouring matter, but may contain tea stalks to a maximum
of 10 percent. It shall conform to the following standards (Calculated on sample dried at
100oC).
(a) Water Extract 33 per cent minimum.
(b) Total Ash 5 to 8 percent
(c) Ratio of Soluble to total Ash 45 per cent minimum
(d) Alkalinity of Ash (as K2O). 1.5 to 2.0 per cent
(e) Ash insoluble in acid 0.8 per cent maximum
(f) Crude fiber 1.5 per cent maximum
(g) Caffeine 2.5 per cent minimum
(h) Tannin. 10 per cent minimum
(i) Moisture. Not more than 8 per cent.
12.3.73 “Coffee” means the seed of cultivated varieties of Coffee Arabica—Coffee liberica,
Coffee robusla which must have the characteristics appearance under the microscope and shall
be free from any artificial colouring matter and flavour, facing or glazing substance.
12.3.74 “Green Coffee, raw Coffee, Unroasted Coffee”, means coffee seed free from all but
a small portion of its spermoderm and conforming in variety and in place of production to the
name it bears, and which must have the characteristic appearance under the microscope.
12.3.75 “Roasted Coffee, Coffee”, means Properly cleaned green coffee seed which by the
action of heat (roasting) has become brown and has developed its characteristic aroma.
12.3.76 “Ground Coffee” means the powdered product obtained from Roasted Coffee only,
and shall be free from husk. Coffee, Green Coffee, Raw Coffee, unroasted Coffee, Roasted
Coffee. Ground Coffee shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Nitrogen content 2 to 2.75 per cent
(b) Total Ash, determined on samples
dreied to constant weight at
100 oC, in appearance feathery
white or bluish white, entirely
soluble in dilute hydrochloric
acid. 3.5 to 5.0 per cent.
(c) Alkalinity of ash, per gram of dried
coffee. 3.4 to 4.4 ml of N/10 Acid
(d) Caffeine Contents. Not less than 1.2 per cent.
(e) Aqueous extract determined by
extraction of 2 grams of the sample
dried to constant weight at 100o C
with 100ml of boiling distilled water

for one hour under reflux. 15 to 32 per cent
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12.3.77 “Coffee Chicory Mixture”, means a mixture of coffee seed with chicory (Dried
roasted root of Cichorium Intybus Linn) in equal proportion and shall be in sound dry and dust
free condition with no rancid or obnoxious. It shall contain caffeine not less than 0.6 per cent.
12.3.78.“Liquid Coffee Essence” shall contain not less than 0.5 per cent weight in volume of
caffeine derived from coffee and free from extractives from any roasted vegetable matter other
than coffee.
12.3.79“Instant Coffee Or Soluble Coffee”, means the dried soluble solids obtained from
water-extraction of freshly roasted, pure coffee beans. It shall be in the form of free flowing
powder or granule having the colour, taste and flavour characteristic of coffee. It shall be free
from impurities and shall not contain chicory or any other substance. It shall conform to the
(a) Moisture. Not more than 3.5 per cent.
(b) Total ash (on dry basis). Not more than 12 per cent
(c) Caffeine content (on dry basis). Not less than 2.8 per cent
(d) Solubility in boiling water. Dissloves readily in 30 seconds
With moderate stirring.
(e) Solubility in cold water 16±2°C. Soluble in 3 minutes with
moderate stirring .
12.3.80 “Instant Coffee Chicory Mixture”, means the product manufactured from roasted
and ground coffee and roasted and ground chicory. It shall be in the form of a free flowing
powder having the colour, taste and flavour characteristics of coffee-chicory powder. It
shall be free from any impurities and shall not contain any other added substance. It shall
conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture. Not more than 5.0 per cent.
(b) Total ash. Not less than 7.0 per cent and
not more10 per cent.
(c) Caffeine content. Not less than 1.4 per cent.
Any package containing instant coffee-chicory mixture shall have affixed to it a label upon
which shall be printed the following declaration.
Instant Coffee- Chicory Mixture made from blends of

Coffee and chicory.
Coffee per cent.

Chicory per cent.
12.3.81“Coffee Mixture”, means ground coffee mixed with other ground food substances.
Such mixtures shall contain not less than 50 per cent coffee and shall not contain any harmful
substance.
A package which contains any mixture of coffee and substances other than chicory, a
statement in which the words “Coffee Mixture” shall be printed in larger Letters than any other
words on the label, immediately followed by a statement of the ingredients of the mixture and
of the proportion in which the ingredients of the mixture are present, printed in the following
form.
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“Contains (here insert the number of parts per cent of coffee) parts per cent of coffee
mixed with (here insert the number of parts per cent of other ingredients) parts per
cent of (here insert the names of such other ingredients).
The word “Coffee” and expressions which include the word “Coffee” shall not be printed
on any statement or label printed on or attached to any package which contains a mixture of
coffee with substances other than chicory unless it be conjoined with the word “Mixture”.
12.3.82 “Coffee and Chicory Essence”, shall be free from extractives from any roasted
vegetable matter other than coffee or chicory and shall contain not less than 0.5 percent weight
in volume of caffeine derived from coffee.
There shall be written on the label of a package containing liquid coffee essence or coffee and
chicory essence-In larger letter than those of any other words on the label, the words “Liquid
Coffee Essence” or “Coffee and Chicory Essence”, as the case may be.
The word “Coffee” shall not appear on the label of a package containing liquid coffee
essence or coffee and chicory essence unless it is proceeded by the word “Liquid” in the case
of liquid coffee essence, and is conjoined with the words “and chicory essence” in the case of
coffee and chicory essence.
12.3.83 “Cocoa Bean”, means the properly fermented, dried wholesome seed of the cocoa tree
Theobroma Cacao L.
12.3.84 “Cocoa Nib Or Cracked Cocoa”, means the roasted cocoa bean freed from its shell
or husk, with or without the germ.
12.3.85 “Cocoa Paste, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Slab Or Cocoa Liquor”, means the solid or semi
solid mass produced by grinding wholesome cocoa nibs. It shall contain not less than 48 per
cent of cocoa fat. Cocoa paste, cocoa mass cocoa slab or cocoa liquor on water-free and fat free
basis shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Starch (naturally present). Not more than 19 per cent.
(b) Crude fibre. Not more than 7 per cent.
(c) Total ash. Not more than 8 per cent.
(d) Ash insoluble in water. Not more than 5.5 per cent.
(e) Ferric oxide. Not more than 0.4 per cent.
12.3.86 “Cocoa Butter”, means the fat obtained by expression from the nibs of wholesome
beans of Theobroma Cocoa L. It shall be free from other oils and fats, mineral oil and added
colours. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Refractive index of extracted
Fat at 40 0C. 1.456 to 1.459
(b) Melting point 290C to 340C
(c) Free fatty acids (as oleic acid). Not more than 1.5 per cent.
(d) Saponification Value. 188 - 200
(e) Iodine value. 32 - 42
12.3.87 “Cocoa Or Cocoa Powder Or Soluble Cocoa”, means the powder which is the
partially defatted product derived from the cocoa bean, the seed of Theobroma Cocoa L. It may
be subjected to treatments during manufacture with alkali and/or magnesium carbonate,
bicarbonate, and with Tartaric, Citric or phosphoric acids. It shall be free from rancidity, dirt,
filth, insects and insect fragments or fungus infestations. It shall conform to the following
standards: -
(a) Total ash (on moisture and fat free basis). Not more than 12.5 per cent.
(b) Ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid.
(on moisture and fat free basis). Not more than 1 per cent.
(c) Alkalinity of ash (as K2O)
(on moisture and fat free basis). Not more than 6 per cent.
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(d) Cocoa butter. Not less than 20 per cent.
12.3.88 “Chocolate” (Chocolate paste, confectioners’ chocolate, chocolate coating or
chocolate powder) shall be a preparation of cocoa paste or cocoa powder or cocoa, with or
without the addition of cocoa fat, sugar, spices, milk solids, permitted emulsifier, and permitted
flavouring agent. It shall not contain any foreign fat or oil other than cocoa butter or milk fat. It
(a) Cocoa solids (fat free basis). Not less than 14 per cent.
(b) Total cocoa solids. Not less than 35 per cent
(c) Cocoa butter. Not less than 18 per cent.
12.3.89 “Milk Chocolate”, shall be the product prepared by mixing cocoa paste or cocoa with
sugar, milk solids, cocoa butter, with or without other food. It shall conform to the following
standards: -
(a) Milk fat. Not less than 5 per cent.
(b) Milk solids (fat free basis). Not less than 15 per cent.
(c) Cocoa solids (fat free basis). Not less than 2.5 per cent.
(d) Total cocoa solids. Not less than 20 per cent.
(e) Total fat. Not less than 25 per cent.
(f) Sugar. Not more than 55per cent.
12.3.90 “Chocolate Confectionery”, shall be any solid or semi-solid product complete in itself
and suitable for direct consumption without further preparation or processing of, which the
characteristic ingredient is chocolate or cocoa, with or without the addition of nuts or fruits and
includes products made by encrusting sugar confectionery and other ingredients in chocolate
but does not include chocolate, chocolate-coated filled or flavoured biscuits, and any type of
ice cream.
The chocolate portion of any chocolate confectionery shall comply with the standards
laid down for chocolate in these rules.
12.3.91 “Aerated water, or carbonated water” other than soda water shall be potable water
sweetened with sugar or with non-nutritive artificial sweetening agents, but not in combination,
impregnated with carbon dioxide, or oxygen or with both, under pressure, with or without
admixture of salts of sodium, potassium, lithium, magnesium or calcium, singly or in
combination, with or without citric acid and of the permitted flavouring and permitted
colouring substances, if any, and shall not contain tartaric acid except where grape juice has
been used as an ingredient and more than 0.1 per cent of phosphoric acid and shall contain
caffeine not less than 50 p.p.m. Aerated water shall not contain any other poisonous metals,
provided that Aerated water shall be deemed to be below the standard of purity if it is
manufactured from water which is unfit for drinking purposes or if ice manufactured from such
water is inserted in it. It shall also conform to the following requirements: -
(a) Total plate count per ml. Not more than 50.
(b) Coliform count in 100ml Nil.
(c) Yeast and mould count per ml. Not more than 2.
12.3.92 “Soda Water” shall be potable water impregnated with carbon dioxide or oxygen, or
with both, under pressure, with or without admixture of salts of sodium, potassium, lithium,
magnesium or calcium, singly or in combination, and shall not contain any lead, or other
poisonous metal or any other added substance. Soda water shall be deemed to be below the
standard of purity if it is manufactured from water which is unfit for drinking purpose or if, ice
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manufactured from such water is inserted in it. It shall also conform to the following
requirements:
(a) Total plate count per ml. Not more than 50.
(b) Coliform count in 100ml Nil.
(c) Yeast and mould count per ml. Not more than 2.
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12.4 Sweetening Agents
12.4.93 “Refined Sugar”, means the colourless odourless, crystalline or white powder
product, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane or of the sugar beet. It shall contain not less
than 99.8 per cent of sucrose, and not more than 0.1 per cent of sulphated ash and not more
than 0.05 per cent of moisture.
12.4.94 “Desi Sugar” means the crystallised sugar obtained from sugar-cane, beet root, and
free from clods, bleaching agents or any objectionable flavour. It shall contain not more than
1.5 per cent of moisture not more than 0.7% of ash and not less than 96.5% of sucrose and
sulphur dioxide not exceeding 70 mg/kg.
12.4.95 “Gur/Shakar” means the product obtained by boiling or processing juice pressed out
of sugar cane or sugar beet. It shall be free from substances deleterious to health and shall
conform to the following standards on dry weight basis: -
(j) Moisture. Not more than 8.5 per cent.
(k) Sucrose Not less than 80 per cent.
(l) Matters insoluble in water. Not more than 2.0 per cent.
(m) Total ash. Not more than 5.0 per cent.
(n) Ash insoluble in Hydrochloric acid. Not more than 0.2 per cent.
12.4.96 “Honey” means the nectar and saccharide exudation of plants gathered, modified and
stored by the honey bee, and shall not contain added sugar or glucose or starch syrup or
artificial sweetening substances or any other added substance. It shall conform to the following
standards: -
(a) Moisture. Not more than 20 per cent.
(b) Ash. Not more than 0.5per cent
(c) Sucrose. Not more than 6 per cent.
(d) Reducing sugars. Not less than 65 per cent.
(e) Fiehe’s test. Negative.
(f) Acidity. Not more than 40 milliequivalents
acids per 1000 grams.
It shall not have any objectionable flavour, aroma or taint absorbed from foreign matter during
the processing and storage. It shall not have begun to ferment or be effervescent and shall be
Laevorotatory.
Diastase activity & hydroxymethyl furfural content: -
Determined after processing and
blending diastase figure on Gothe scale: less than 8 DN UNITS
provided the hydroxymethyl furfural
content is: Not more than 40 mg/Kg.
Honey with low natural enzyme content: -
e.g. citrus, diastase content on Gothe scale: not less than 3
provided the hydroxymethyl furfural content is: not more than 15 mg/kg.
12.4.97 “Liquid Glucose/Corn Syrup/Glucose Syrup” means a purified viscous syrup of
nutritive saccharides obtained from the hydrolysis of starch. It shall be colourless odourless,
and sweet in taste. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Refractive index at 200C Not less than 1.490
(b) Total solids content. Not less than 70 per cent.
(c) Reducing sugar content (Dextrose equivalent). Not less than 20 per cent.
(d) Sulphated ash. Not more than 0.6 per cent.
(e) Acidity on 5.0gm Not more than 0.5 ml of
Decinormal of alkali required.
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12.4.98 “Cane Molasses” means the mother liquor left over after the recovery of sugar in the
crystallization process. It shall be dark colour, viscous syrupy liquid having a characteristic
odour. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Density, in degrees Brix at 27.5oC Not less than 80
(b) Ash, sulphated, per cent by mass
(Calculated for 1000 Brix). Not more than 17.5
(c) Total reducing matter as invert
sugar per cent by mass Not less than 40.
12.4.99 “Batasha/Makhana” shall contain not more than 0.7 per cent of ash and shall have a
clean appearance and free from added colouring matter.
12.4.100 “Misri” means the product made in the form of candy obtained from any kind of
sugar. It shall be free from dirt, filth, iron filings and added colouring matter. Extraneous
matter shall not exceed 0.1 per cent by weight. It shall also conform to the following standards:
-
(a) Total ash. Not more than 0.4 per cent.
(b) Sucrose. Not less than 98.0 per cent.
12.4.101 “Dextrose Monohydrate” is purified and crystallized D-Glucose containing one
molecule of water of crystalization and it shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) D- Glucose content. (On dry basis) Not less than 99.5 per cent.
(b) Total solids contents. Not less than 90.0 per cent.
(c) Sulphated ash (On dry basis) Not more than 0.25 per cent.
(d) Sulphur dioxide. Not more than 20 mg/Kg.
12.4.102 “Cube Sugar” means the sugar in the form of cube or cuboids blocks manufactured
from refined crystlised sugar. It shall be white in colour, free from dirt and other extraneous
contamination. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture Not less than 0.25 per cent.
(b) Sucrose. Not more than 99.5 per cent.
(c) Total Sulphated ash. Not more than 0.03 per cent.
(d) Sulphur dioxide. Not more than 70 mg/Kg.
12.4.103 “Icing Sugar” means the sugar manufactured by pulverizing refined sugar or
vacuum pan sugar with or without edible starch. Edible starch if added shall be uniformly
extended in the sugar. It shall be in the form of white powder free from dust, or any other
extraneous matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture Not less than 0.80 per cent.
(b) Starch. Not more than 2.0 per cent.
(c) Total starch and Sucrose. Not less than 99.0 per cent.
(d) Reducing sugar. Not more than 0.06 per cent
(e) Sugar as sucrose. Not less than 96 per cent.
12.4.104 “Dried Glucose Syrup,” means the material in the form of coarse or fine, white to
creamish white powder, sweet to taste, bland in flavour and somewhat hygroscopic. It shall be
free from fermentation, evidence of mould growth, dirt or other extraneous matter or added
sweetening or flavouring agent.It shall also not contain any added natural or synthetic food
colour. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Total solid content. Not less than 93.0 per cent.
(b) Reducing sugar. Not more than 20 per cent
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(c) Total Sulphated ash. Not more than 1.0 per cent
(d) Sulphur dioxide. Range 30 to 40 ppm.
12.4.105 “Ice Confection” means a frozen preparation of potable water with other food.It
shall include ice lollipops, ice lollies, edible ices and similar products whatever the name it is
called. It shall not contain any artificial sweetener.
12.4.106 “Ice Lollies or Edible Ices” means the frozen ice produce which may contain sugar,
syrup, fruit, fruit juices, cocoa, citric acid, permitted flavours and colours, permitted stabilizers
and/or emulsifiers not exceeding 0.5 per cent by weight. It shall not contain any artificial
sweetener.
12.4.107 “Ice Candy” means the frozen ice produce which may contain fruit, fruit juices,
cocoa, nuts, citric acid, permitted flavours and colours. It may also contain permitted stabilizers
and/or emulsifiers not exceeding 0.5 per cent by weight. It shall contain sugar not less than
10.0 per cent by weight. It shall not contain any artificial sweetener.
12.4.108 “Golden Syrup” means the syrup obtained by inversion of sugar. It shall be golden
yellow in colour, pleasant in taste and free from any crystallisation. It shall conform to the
(a) Water Not more than 25.0 per cent.
(b) Total ash. Not more than 2.5per cent.
(c) Total sugar as invert sugar. Not less than 72 per cent.
Sulphur dioxide content shall not exceed 70 mg/kg.
Sodium bicarbonate, if used, for clarification purposes, shall be of food grade quality.
12.4.109 “Fructose” means the purified and crystallised D-fructose. It shall conform to the
(a) D- Fructose. Not more than 95 per cent.
(b) Specific rotation (α D 20) -890 to –93.50
(c) Sulphated ash. Not more than 0.1 per cent.
(d) Colour Not more than 30 ICUMSA units.
(e) pH of 10 per cent solution of fructose. 4.5 to 7.0
12.4.110 “High Fructose/ Glucose Syrup” means the bright, clear viscous colourless syrup
produced by controlled hydrolysis and isomarization of starch. It shall conform to the
(a) Water Range 20 to 25 per cent.
(b) Fructose. (on dry basis) Not less than 40 per cent.
(c) Dextrose (anhydrous) (on dry basis) Not less than 50 per cent.
(d) Oligosaccharides. (on dry basis) Not less than 5.0 per cent.
(e) Sulphated ash. Not more than 0.1 per cent.
(f) pH 4.5
SWEETS AND CONFECTIONERY:
12.4.111 “Sugar boiled confectionery” whether sold as hard boiled sugar confectionery or
pan goods confectionery or toffee or milk toffee, modified toffee or lacto-bon-bon or by any
other name shall mean a processed composite food article made from sugar with or without
doctoring agents such as cream of tartar, by process of boiling whether panned or not. It may
contain centre filling, or otherwise, which may be in the form of liquid, semi-solid or solids
with or without coating of sugar or chocolate or both.
It may also contain carbohydrated sugars, milk and milk products, malt extracts, edible
starches.edible oils and fats, fruit and fruit products, nut and nut products, chocolate and cocoa,
vitamins and minerals, common salt, spices and condiments and there extracts, sodium
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bicarbonate, edible food grains, edible seeds, baking powder, essential volatile oils, edible
gums, permitted food additives. It shall not contain artificial sweeteners. It shall conform to the
following standards.
Sulphated ash on salt free basis. Not more than 1.5 per cent.
Provided that in case of sugar boiled confectionery where spices are used as centre
filling, the sulphated ash shall not be more than 3 per cent by weight and ash insoluble
in hydrochloric acid shall not be more than 0.2 percent.
Where the sugar boiled confectionery is sold under the name of milk toffee, and butter toffee, it
shall conform to the following additional requirements as shown against each.
1) Milk Toffee--
i) Total protein (N x 6.25) shall not be less than 3 per cent by weight on dry
basis.
ii) Milk Fat content shall not be less than 4 per cent by weight on dry basis.
2) Butter toffee—
Butter fat content shall not be less than 4 per cent by weight on dry basis.
It may contain sulphur dioxide in concentration not exceeding 350 parts per million.
12.4.112 “Lozenges” means confections made mainly out of pulverised sugar, or icing sugar
with binding materials such as edible gums, edible gelatine, liquid glucose or dextrin and
generally made from cold mixing which does not require primary boiling or cooking of the
ingredients. It may contain any of the following.
Carbohydrated sugars, milk and milk products, nuts and nuts products, malt syrup, edible
starches, common salt, spices and condiments and their extracts, permitted food additives,
lubricants (food grade). It shall not contain any artificial sweetener. It shall also conform to the
(a) Sucrose content Not less than 85.0 per cent.
(b) Ash sulphated (salt free basis) Not more than 1.7 per cent.
(c) Ash insoluble in Hydrochloric acid. Not more than 0.2 per cent.
12.4.113 “Chewing gum and bubble gums” means a product prepared from chewing gum
base, or bubble gum base, (natural or synthetic, non toxic), cane sugar and liquid glucose (corn
syrup). The following source of gum base may be used.
Babul, kikar (gum Arabic), chiker (sapota), natural rubber latex, synthetic rubber
latex, synthetic resin, glycerol ester of partially hydrogenated gum or wood resin,
natural resin, polyvinyl acetate, gelatine, food grade (fish or from halal animals),
calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, waxes (food grade), glycerol
monostearate, sorbitol monostearate, permitted antioxidants, permitted food
colours, sorbitol, agar agar(food grade), glycerine, phosphated starch, talc
powder(food grade) chewing gum. It may also contain the following ingredients:
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Malt, milk powder, chocolate, coffee, vitamins, minerals, proteins etc.
It shall be free from dirt, adulterants and harmful ingredients. It shall also conform to the
Chewing Gum
Ingredients. Bubble Gum.
a. Moisture Not more than 3.5 Not more than 3.5 per cent.
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percent
b. Gum Not less than 12.5 Not less than 14 per cent.
percent.
c. Sulphated ash Not more than 9.5 Not more than 11.5 per cent.
percent.
d. Acid Insoluble ash. Not more than 2 percent. Not more than 3.5 per cent.
e. Reducing sugar Not less than 4.5 percent. Not less than 5.5 per cent.
Calculated as dextrose.
f. Sucrose Not more than 70 Not more than 60 percent.
percent.
12.4.114 “Dextrose Anhydrous” means the purified and crystallised D-glucose without water
of crystallisation. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) D - glucose content (on dry basis). Not less than 99.0 per cent.
(b) Total solids content. Not less than 98 per cent.

(c) Sulphated ash (on dry basis). Not more than 0.25 per cent.
12.4.115 “Lactose” means the carbohydrate normally obtained from whey. It may be
anhydrous or contain one molecule of water of crystallisation or be a mixture of both forms. It
(a) Anhydrous lactose content (on dry basis). Not less than 99.0 pr cent.
(b) Sulphated ash (on dry basis). Not more than 0.3 per cent
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(c) Loss on drying (16 hours at 120 C). Not more than 6.0 per cent.
(d) pH (solution 10 percent) 4.5 – 7.0
12.4.116 “Dextrose Powder (Icing Dextrose)”, means finely pulverized dextrose anhydrous
or dextrose monohydrate or mixtures thereof, with or without the addition of an anti-caking
agent. It shall conform to the following standards: -
Total Solids Content

i.. Powdered dextrose made from dextrose Not less than 98 percent.
anhydrous.
ii. Powdered dextrose made from dextrose Not less than 90 percent.
monohydrate.
iii. Reducing sugar content (dextrose equivalent) Not less than 99.5 percent
(On dry basis)
iv. Sulphated ash. (on dry basis) Not more than 0.25 percent
v. Powdered dextrose made from dextrose
anhydrous or dextrose monohydrate or mixtures
thereof the total solids content shall be
proportional to the characteristics of the mixture.
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12.5 Food Grains, Cereals And Cereal ProductS.
12.5.117 Food grains shall include wheat, rice, barley, oats, maize, jawar, bajara, gram and
pulses. Food grains for human consumption shall be clean, dry and free from moulds and insect
damage, abnormal smell, discoloration and admixture with deleterious and toxic material. Food
grains shall conform to the following standards: -
a) Colour ___ the grain as far as possible, shall have its normal colour but mere
discolouration shall not make it unfit if repellent smell or taste have not
developed.
b) Smell ____ Persistent bad smell in food grains shall be indicative of unhealthy
deterioration of grain and it shall be considered to be injurious to health.
c) Taste ____ any taste other than the characteristic taste of food grains shall be
deemed to render the food grains injurious to health.
d) Foreign matter ___ Not more than 3 percent out of which inorganic matter and
poisonous seed shall not exceed 1 percent and 0.5 percent respectively. Out of
the total limit of poisonous seeds, dhatura and akra (vicia species) shall not
exceed 0.025 per cent and 0.2 per cent respectively.
e) Foreign food grains ___ Grains, other than the one which is being sold, shall be
deemed to be foreign food grains, so far as that particular food grains is
concerned, and shall not exceed 5 percent by weight.
f) Damaged grains ___ Grains which are damaged, touched or mouldy, or shrivelled
shall not exceed a total of 5 percent of which mouldy grains, after superficial
cleaning, shall not be more than 1.5 percent.
g) Insect damaged grains ___ Shall not exceed the limit of 5 percent.
h) Sound grains ____ Notwithstanding the permissible limit stated in foreign matter the
percentage of normal and sound grains shall in no case be lower than 85
percent of the total grain inclusive of the percentage under “Foreign Food
grains”.
i) Moisture Content ___ The moisture content at any time irrespective of climate or
season, shall not exceed 12 percent.
j) Uric acid. Not more than 100 mg/kg.
k) Mycotoxin including aflatoxin. Not more than 20 µg/Kg.
Explanation: -
a) “Foreign matter”, means any extraneous matter other food grains comprising of—
(a) Inorganic matter consisting of metallic pieces, sand gravel, dirt, pebbles, stones,
lumps of earth, clay and mud, animal filth and in the case of rice, kernels or
pieces of kernels, if any, having mud sticking on the surface of the rice and
(b) Organic matter consisting of husk, straws, seeds and other inedible grains and
also paddy in the case of rice.
b) Poisonous, toxic and / or harmful seeds means any seeds which if present in quantities
above permissible limit may have damaging or dangerous effect on health, organoleptic
properties or technological performances such as dhatura (D fastuosa linn and D.
Stramonium linn). Corncokle (Agrostemma githagol, Machai Lalilium remulenum)
Akra (Vicia species).
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c) “Damaged grains” means kernels or pieces of kernels that are sprouted or internally
damaged as result of heat, microbe, moisture or weather, Viz. ergot affected grain and
kernel bunt grains.
d) “Insect damaged grains” means food grains that are partially or wholly bored by
insects.
e) “Foreign food grains” means any edible grains (including oil seeds) other than the one,
which is under consideration.
12.5.118 “Wheat” means the dried mature grains of Triticum aestivum Linn. It shall be sweet,
clean and wholesome. It shall conform to the standards of Food grains including the following
standards: -
(a) Insect damaged grains __ shall not exceed the limit of 1.5 per cent.
(b) Sound grains __ the percentage of normal and sound grains shall in no case be
lower than 95 per cent of the total food grains inclusive of the percentage under
“Foreign food grains”.
12.5.119 “Maize” means the dried mature grains of Zea mays Linn, shall be sound, dry sweet,
hard, clean and wholesome. It shall conform to the standard of Food Grains including the
(a) Foreign matter. …Not more than 4.0 percent and shall not contain any poisonous
seeds.
(b) Foreign food grains. ….Not more than 3.0 percent.
Provided that the total of foreign matter, other edible grains and damaged grains shall not
exceed 9.0 percent by weight.
12.5.120 “Jawar(Sorghum) and Bajra(millets)”, Jawar and Bajra shall be the dried mature
grains of Sorghum Vulgare also called Sorghum bicolor and Pennisetum typhoides
respectively. The grains shall be sweet, hard, clean and wholesome. It shall conform to the
standard of Food Grains including the following standards:-
(a) Foreign matter. …Not more than 4.0 percent and shall not contain any Poisonous
seeds.
(b) Foreign food grains. …Not more than 3.0 percent
(c) Damaged grains. ….Not more than 5.0 percent out of which Ergot affected Grains
shall
not exceed 0.05 percent.
Provided that the total of foreign matter, other edible grains and damaged grains shall not
exceed 8.0 percent by weight.
12.5.121 “Rice” means the mature kernels or pieces of kernels of Oryza sativa Linn obtained
from paddy as raw or parboiled. It shall be dry, sweet, clean, wholesome and free from
poisonous substance. It shall conform to the standard of Food Grains including the following
standards: -
(a) Foreign matter. ……. Not more than 3.0 percent by weight out Of which
inorganic
matter shall not Exceed 1.0 percent by weight.
(b) Weevilled grains. ……..Not more than 1.5 percent
Provided that the total of foreign matter, other food grains and
damaged grains shall not exceed 6 percent by weight.
12.5.122 “ Masur Whole” Masur whole shall consist of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik or
Ervem lens esculents Moench). It shall be clean, dry, sound, wholesome and sweet. It shall
conform to the standard of Food Grains including the following standards:-
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(a) Foreign matter. ………Not more than 3.0 percent out of which Inorganic and
poisonous
seeds shall not Exceed 1.0 per cent by weight.
(b) Foreign food grains. …Not more than 3.0 percent
Provided that the total of foreign matter, other foreign food grains and
damaged grains shall not exceed 9 percent.
12.5.123 “Mash whole”Mash whole consists of seeds of pulses (Phaeseolous radiatus Linn).
It shall be clean, dry, wholesome and sweet. It shall conform to the standard of Food Grains
including the following standards:-
(a) Foreign matter. ……..Not more than 3.0 percent out of which Inorganic and
poisonous
seeds shall not Exceed 1.0 per cent by
weight.
(b) Foreign food grains. …. Not more than 3.0 percent
(c) Weevilled grains. ……..Not more than 6.0 percent.
Provided that the total of foreign matter, other foreign food grains and
damaged grains shall not exceed 9 percent.
12.5.124 “Moong Whole” shall consist of seeds of green gram (Phaseolous aurues Roxb.
Phaseolous radiatus Roxb). It shall be clean, dry, sound, wholesome and sweet, and free from
admixture of unwholesome substances. It shall conform to the standard of Food Grains
including the following standards: -
(a) Foreign matter. ……...Not more than 3.0 percent out of which Inorganic and
poisonous
seeds shall not Exceed 1.0 per cent by
weight.
(b) Foreign food grains. ………Not more than 3.0 percent
Provided that the total of foreign matter, other foreign food grains and damaged
grains shall not exceed 9.0 percent.
12.5.125 “Chana Whole” shall be the dried grains of gram (Circer aietinum Linn). It shall be
clean, dry, sound, wholesome, sweet, and free from unwholesome, substances. It shall conform
to the standard of Food Grains including the following standards: -
(a) Foreign matter. …….Not more than 3.0 percent out of which Inorganic matter shall
not
Exceed 1.0 per cent by weight.
(b) Foreign food grains. ……Not more than 3.0 percent
(c) Insect damaged grains……Not more than 4.0 percent
Provided that the total of foreign matter, other foreign food grains and damaged grains shall
12.5.126 “Split Pulse (Dal) Arhar” Dal Arhar shall consist of dehusked and split seeds of red
gram( Cajanus cajan (L) Millsp). It shall be clean, dry, sound, wholesome, sweet, and free from
admixture of unwholesome substances. It shall conform to the standard of Food Grains
including the following standards: -
(a) Foreign matter. …………Not more than 2.0 percent out of which Inorganic matter
shall
not Exceed 1.0 per cent
(b) Foreign food grains. …….Not more than 0.5 percent
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(c) Insect damaged grains. …..Not more than 2.0 percent
12.5.127 “Split Pulse (Dal) Moong” Dal Moong shall consist split seeds of green grams
(Phaseolus aureus Roxb. Phaseolus radiatus Roxb). It shall be clean, dry, sound, wholesome,
sweet, and free from admixture of unwholesome substances. It shall conform to the standard of
Food Grains including the following standards: -
(a) Foreign matter. ………Not more than 2.0 percent out of which Inorganic matter
shall
not Exceed 1.0 percent by weight.
(b) Foreign food grains. ……..Not more than 4 percent
(c) Insect damaged grains. ……..Not more than 3 percent.
not exceed 8 percent.
12.5.128 “Dal Chana” Dal chana shall consist of split, dehusked seeds of green gram (Cicer
arietinum Linn.).It shall be clean, dry, sound, wholesome, sweet, and free from admixture of
unwholesome substances. It shall conform to the standard of Food Grains including the
(a) Foreign matter. ……….Not more than 2.0 percent out of which Inorganic matter
shall
not Exceed 1.0 per cent.
(b) Foreign food grains. ………Not more than 2 percent
(c) Insect damaged grains. .……Not more than 2 percent
12.5.129 “Split Pulse (Dal) Masur” Dal Masur shall consist of dehusked whole and split seed
of the lentil (Lens esculenta Monech or Lens culinaris Medik or Erven lens Linn). It shall be
clean, dry, sound, wholesome, sweet, and free from admixture of unwholesome substances. It
shall conform to the standard of Food Grains including the following standards: -
(a) Foreign matter. ………...Not more than 2.0 percent out of which Inorganic matter
shall
not Exceed 1.0 per cent.
(b) Foreign food grains. ……….Not more than 2.0 percent
(c) Insect damaged grains. ……….Not more than 3.0 percent.
12.5.130 “Atta” means the coarse product obtained by milling or grinding sound and clean
wheat and sieving it. It shall be free from grit. It shall contain not more than 1.5 percent of ash
and not less than 8 percent of gluten (dry) and not more than 0.115 percent of acidity expressed
as sulphuric acid and determined by the alcoholic extraction process. It shall contain moisture
not more than 13 percent, acid insoluble ash in hydrochloric acid not more than 0.1 percent.
Crude fibre from 2.1 to 2.5 percent, Dietary fibre not less than 7.5 percent.
12.5.131 “Fortified Atta” means the product obtained by adding one or more of the following
materials to atta, namely: -
(a) Calcium carbonate
(b) Iron.
(c) Thiamine.
(d) Riboflavin and
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(e) Niacin.
The calcium carbonate powder, if added for fortification shall be in such amount that 100 parts
by weight of fortified atta shall contain not less than 0.30 and not more than 0.35 parts by
weight of calcium carbonate.
12.5.132 “Maida” means the fine product made by milling or grinding cleaned wheat and
bolting or dressing the resulting wheat meal. It shall contain not more than 0.5 percent of ash
and 0.05 percent of acid insoluble ash and not less than 8 percent of dry gluten, and not more
than 0.115 percent of acidity expressed as sulphuric acid and determined by the alcoholic
extraction process. It shall contain moisture not more than 13 percent.
12.5.133 “Fortified Maida” means the product obtained by adding one or more of the
following materials to maida, namely:-
(a) Calcium carbonate.
(b) Iron.
(c) Thiamine.
(d) Riboflavin, and
(e) Niacin.
The Calcium carbonate powder, if added for fortification, shall be in
such amount that 100 parts by weight of fortified maida shall contain
not less than 0.30 and not more than 0.35 parts by weight of calcium
carbonate.
12.5.134 “Suji, Semolina” means the food prepared by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat to
such fineness that it passes through a NO.20 sieve but not more than 3 percent passes through a
NO.100 sieve. It shall be free from grit and insect infestation, musty smell and off odour. It
shall contain not more than 1 percent of total ash and not more than 12 percent of moisture and
not less than 8 percent of dry gluten. It shall contain not more than 0.115 percent of acidity
expressed as sulphuric acid and determined by the alcoholic extraction process.
12.5.135 “Besan, Vesan, Gram Flour” means the product obtained by milling or grinding
cleaned, dried dehusked desi chana (Cicer arietinum) and sieving it. It shall contain not more
than 3 percent of ash and not more than 0.45 percent of acidity expressed as lactic acid and not
more than 12 percent of moisture. It must have the characteristic appearance under the
microscope. It shall contain protein on dry basis (N X 6.25) not less than 21 percent.
12.5.136 “Prepacked Cereal Food” means the product obtained from a combination of any
cereals that are un-cooked partially cooked or cooked with any other food.
12.5.137 “Bread” bread, white bread, brown bread, whole wheat bread, milk bread, rolls,
white rolls, bun, white bun and sheer mall are foods obtained by baking yeast leavened dough
prepared from flour (maida), water, salt and leavening agent.
Types of Bread.
(a) The word “Bread” when used in the name of food shall mean the unit weight 180
grams or more after cooling.
(b) The words “roll”, “bun”, and “sheer mall” when used in the name of food shall mean
the unit weight not less than 180 grams after cooling.
To make the products more palatable and with longer shelf life any of the
ingredients listed below may be used singly or in combination at
permissible limit by these rules. The finished foods shall contain not
less than 62 percent total solids. All ingredients listed below shall be
hygienically clean and suitable for human consumption.
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Optional Ingredients:
1) Shortening: Edible oils and fats, margarine, ghee, butter or their blends.
2) Milk or other dairy products in such quantity as not to meet the requirements of milk
bread.
3) Sugars and other nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners.
4) Enzyme active preparation: malt extract, malt flour,amylases, proteinases
5) Non wheat flour or non wheat starches which may be wholly or partly dextrinized or
dextrinized wheat flour or any combination. The quantity not to exceed 2 parts flour
each 100 parts of wheat flour.
6) Soya Flour: not more than 0.5 percent.
7) Wheat gluten and wheat germ.
8) Sesame seeds, caraway seeds, cracked wheat, cracked or kibbled malted wheat.
9) Yeast stimulating products and calcium salts, if the quantity of such ingredients (with
the exception of monocalcium phosphate and calcium propionate) is not more than
0.25 parts for each 100 parts of wheat flour.
10) Acetic acid, vinegar, monocalcium phosphoric acid, sodium pyrophosphate, lactic
acid, potassium acid tartrate and sodium diacetate.
11) Lecithin.
12) Ascorbic acid, potassium bromate, azodicarbonamide (maximum 45ppm on flour
weight basis), L-cysteine HCL( max.. 75ppm on flour weight basis), Ammonium
persulphate, potassium persulphate, monoclacium phosphate, chlorine dioxide,
benzoyl peroxide (max. of 50 ppm on flour weight basis.)
13) Propionic acid or its calcium or potassium salts (upto 3000ppm on flour weight basis
expressed as propionic acid.)
14) Mono and di-glycerides of fatty acids, lactic acid esters and citric acid esters of mono
and diglycerides of fatty acids, mono and diacetyle tartaric acid esters of mono and
di-glycerides of fatty acids, stearyl tartarate, sodium and calcium stearoyl- 2-
lactylates
( upto 5000 ppm on bread weight basis)
Bread; Rolls, buns and sheer mall as defined and described by these rules shall not contain any
artificial colour of any type. Artificial colouring shall not be used as such or as part of any
ingredient added to these products (e.g. candied fruits used in buns shall not contain any
artificial colouring matter).
Brown Bread, Bran Bread: - The composition of brown bread/ bran bread requires minimum
fiber content calculated by weight on the dry matter of the bread shall not be less than 0.6
percent. Brown bread / bran bread may contain all or any of the permitted ingredients set out in
case if in the bread except that Soya flour if present may not be more than five parts per
hundred parts of flour.
The composition of whole wheat bread requires it to be made from
whole wheat flour which is the whole of the product derived from the
milling of cleaned wheat, without the addition of any other flour, with
yeast and water, and any of the following limited list of permitted
ingredients:
salt, sugar, edible oils and fats, enzyme active preparations, caraway
seeds, cracked wheat and cracked or kibbled malted wheat; yeast
stimulating preparation: acetic acid, vinegar, monoclacium phosphate,
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acid sodium pyrophosphate, lactic acid, potassium acid tartrate, and
sodium diacetate: lecithin, any substance used as an excipient or
diluent of these ingredients.
Milk Bread:- The composition of milk bread is that of white bread plus not less than six
percent of whole milk solids calculated by weight on the dry matter of the bread.
Skimmed Milk Bread:- The composition of skimmed milk bread is that of milk bread but
with the substitution of skimmed milk solids for whole milk solids.
Enriched / Fortified bread, rolls and buns.
Each of the foods enriched bread, enriched rolls and enriched buns
conforms to the definition and standard of identity and is subject to the
requirements for label statement of ingredients prescribed for bread,
rolls or buns except that:
1) Each such food contains in each pound 1.8 milligrams of thiamine, 1.1 milligrams of
riboflavin, 15 milligrams of niacin, and 12.5 milligrams of iron.
2) Each such food may contain added calcium in such quantity that the total calcium
content is 600 milligrams per pound. If insufficient calcium is added to meet the 600-
milligram level per pound of the finished food, no claim shall be made on the label for
calcium as a nutrient except as a part of nutrition labelling.
3) The requirements of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this clause will be deemed to have been
met if reasonable overages of the vitamins and minerals, within the limits of good
manufacturing practice, are present to ensure that the required levels of the vitamins
and minerals are maintained throughout the expected shelf life of the food under
customary conditions of distribution and storage.
12.5.138 “Biscuits” shall conform to the following standards:
(a) Moisture Not more than 5 percent.
(b) Ash insoluble in Hydrochloric (on dry basis) Not more than 0.05 percent.
(c) Fat Not less than 5 percent
(d) Acidity of ether extracted Fat (as Oleic acid) Not more than 1 percent.
(e) Rancidity (Kries test) of ether
Extracted fat (in one inch cell). Below 3R.
Where any of the following names or abbreviation of names as is used
to describe biscuit it shall contain not less than the quantity shown
below in the ingredient.
Arrow root 5.0 per cent of the cereal present to be arrowroot
Barley 5.0 percent of the cereal present to be Barley.
Butter or butter fat or Ghee 100 percent of the fat present to be butter fat or ghee (milk
fat)
Corn flour 5.0 per cent of the cereal present to be corn flour.
Chocolate 10 percent of the total shall be cocoa (defatted)
Coconut or coconut fat 50.0 per cent of the fat present to be coconut fat.
Glucose. 10 per cent of dextrose in finished product. Either added as
such or derived from glucose.
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Honey. 7.0 per cent of invert sugar derived from honey in finished
product.
Milk. Doughed wholly with skim milk or containing equivalent
of skim milk powder, the resultant biscuit to contain 1.5
per cent lactose equivalent to 3.0 percent separated milk
solids.
Rice. 5.0 percent of cereal present to be rice.
Soya. 15.0 per cent of Soya in the finished product.
Tapioca. 5.0 per cent of the cereal present to be tapioca.
The biscuits shall be fresh, crisp, appropriately baked of satisfactory texture and consistency,
pleasant in taste, free from weevils, mould and other deleterious substances.
No biscuit shall be labelled with the word “egg” or any word of
similar meanings unless that biscuit contains not less than 10 per cent
egg solids calculated on dry basis.
Sandwich biscuit means a biscuit sandwiched with an emulsion of
fat and sugar with or without permitted colours and permitted flavours;
and fat used in emulsion preparation shall be construed in accordance
with the claim.
In the case of flavoured biscuits, there shall be written on the
package the world “ flavoured biscuits” or the name of the flavour
immediately and conspicuously conjoined with the words “flavoured
biscuits” without intervening, written, printed, graphic matter, or any
other device.
12.5.139 “Prepared Cake Mixes” means a mixture of flour, sugar, fat, egg, leavening agent
with or without permitted food colours and flavours. It shall be free from infestation, rancidity,
pathogenic microoganism, bitterness and mustiness. It shall contain moisture not more than
13.5 per cent. Direction for the preparation shall be declared / written on the label of the
package.
12.5.140 “Pasta Products” (Macaroni, Spaghetti, Vermicelli, noodles, and similar products
whatever the name it is called), means the products obtained from wheat flour, with or without
milk powder, various kinds of starch, edible fats and oils, eggs, common salt, or any other food
stuffs, permitted flavouring agents and permitted colouring matters, vitamins and minerals. It
shall conform to the following standards:-
(a) Moisture. Not more than 10 percent
(b) Total ash. Not more than 1 percent
(c) Ash insoluble in Hydrochloric Acid (on dry basis) Not more than 0.05 percent.
(d) Nitrogen (on dry basis). Not less than 1.7 percent.
No pasta shall be labelled with the word “egg” or any word of similar
meaning unless that pasta contains not less than 4 per cent egg solids
calculated on a dry basis.
12.5.141 “Baking Powder” means a combination, capable under conditions of baking, of
yielding carbon dioxide, and consists of sodium bicarbonate and acid reacting material, starch
or other neutral material: -
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The acid reacting material of baking powder shall be, tartaric acid or its
salts or both, acid salts of phosphoric acid, acid compounds of
aluminum, or any combination of the foregoing. It shall conform to the
(a) Available carbon dioxide Not less than 8.0 percent
(b) Residual carbon dioxide. Not more than 1.5 percent.
(i) There shall be written in the label on a package containing baking powder, the
chemical names and proportions of the ingredients.
(ii) Every package of baking powder for use in food shall be labeled with a
direction
or its use.
12.5.142 “Malt” means the grains of barley, or of any other cereal that has germinated and has
been subsequently dried. The interior of the malt grains shall be white in colour and shall show
no evidence of caramelisation. The grain shall fracture readily between the teeth and sweet
characteristics malty flavour shall be quickly developed. The malt shall be free from mouldy,
broken and damaged grains and in all respect fit for human consumption. It shall conform to
the following standards: -
(a) Moisture. Not more than 5 per cent
(b) Cold water extract. Not more than 15 per cent
(c) Diastatic power Not less than 32 degrees
Lintner.
12.5.143 “Malt Extract” means the substance obtained by evaporating an aqueous extract of
malt at a temperature not exceeding 550C.It shall contain not less than 70 per cent of total
solids derived wholly from malt. The diastatic power of malt extract shall be such as to ensure
that 10 g of the extract in 30 minutes at a temperature of 400C convert 25 g of pure anhydrous
potato starch into an equivalent amount of maltose.
12.5.144 “Bakers’ malt extract, commercial malt extract or Bakers’ maltose” shall
contain not less than 70 percent of solids derived wholly from malt. It shall possess the
diastatic power prescribed for malt.
There shall be written on the label of a package containing bakers’ malt
extract that is devoid of enzymic activity the word “non – diastatic”.
12.5.145 “Malted Milk Food” means the product obtained by mixing whole milk, partly
skimmed milk or milk powder with the wort separated from a mash of ground barley malt, any
other malted cereal grain and wheat flour or any other cereal flour or malt extract with or
without addition of flavouring agents and spices emulsifying agents, eggs, protein isolates,
edible common salt, sodium or potassium bicarbonate, minerals and vitamins and without
added sugar in such a manner as to secure complete hydrolysis of starchy material and
prepared in a powder or granule or flake form by roller drying, spray drying, vacuum drying or
by any other process. It may contain cocoa powder. It shall be free from dirt and other
extraneous matter. It shall not contain any added starch (except starch natural to cocoa powder)
and added non- milk fat. It shall not contain any preservative or added colour. Malted milk
food containing cocoa powder may contain added sugar.It shall conform to the following
standards:-
Malted milk food without Malted milk food
with cocoa powder.
Cocoa powder
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a Moisture Not more than 5 percent. Not more than 5.0
percent
b Total protein (N X 6.25) Not less than 12.5 percent Not less than 11.25
Percent
(on dry basis)
c Total fat. Not less than 7.5 percent. Not less than 6.0
percent.
d Total ash (on dry basis) Not more than 5.0 percent. Not more than 5
percent.
e Ash insoluble in Hydro- Not more than 0.1 percent Not more than
0.1percent -chloric acid(on dry basis)
f Solubility. Not less than 85.0 percent Not less than 85.0
percent
g Cocoa powder ----------- Not less than 5.0
percent.
h Test for starch Negative. Negative.
i Bacterial Count. Not more than 50,000 Not more than 50,000
per per gram gram.
STARCHY FOODS
12.5.146 “Arrowroot Starch” means the separated and purified starch from the rhizomes of
the plant known as Maranta arundinacea. It shall have the characteristic appearance under
microscope. It shall be white and finely powdered and free from rancidity, adulterants, insect
infestation, and rodent contamination and from fermented musty or any other objectionable
odour. It shall not contain added sweetening agent, flavouring substance and colouring matter
or any other foreign matter. It shall be free from dirt and other suspended and extraneous
matter. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(b) Total ash (on dry basis) Not more than 0.2 percent.
(c) Alcoholic acidity as H2SO4 Not more than 2.0 ml N/10 NaoH per 100g of
dried
(With 90 percent alcohol). starch.
12.5.147 “Sago, Sagudana, Sabudana” means the starch obtained from the pith of sago
palm-Sagus rumphi or Metroxylon sago. It shall be free from rancidity, adulterants, insect
infestation, and rodent contamination and from fermented, musty or any other objectionable
odour. It shall not contain added sweetening flavouring or colouring agent or any foreign
matter. It shall have the characteristic appearance under the microscope. It shall conform to the
(c) Total protein. Not more than 0.2 percent.
(d) Fat. Not more than 0.2 percent.
(e) Crude fibre. Not more than 0.2 percent
(f) Carbohydrates. Not less than 87 percent.
12.5.148 “Corn flour” means the starchy food prepared by grinding and bolting cleaned
maize and partial removal of the proteins and fats.It shall contain no added colour, flavours or
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other chemicals.It shall be of such fineness that not less than 98 percent passes through a
NO.50 sieve and not less than 50 percent passed through a NO.70 sieve wire cloth. It shall
(b) Total ash (on dry basis). Not more than 0.5 percent.
(c) Ash insoluble in dilute
Hydrochloric acid Not more than 0.1 percent
(d) Alcoholic acidity as H2SO4 Not more than 0.115 percent
(With 90 percent alcohol)
12.5.149 “Corn flakes” means the product obtained from scoured, degermed, dehulled and
polished corn, which is cooked corn after mixing with malt, sugar, salt and then flaked,
partially dried and roasted. It shall be free from dirt, insects, larvae, impurities, and any other
extraneous matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(b) Total ash excluding salt. (On dry basis) Not more than 1.0 percent.
Hydrochloric acid (on dry basis) Not more than 0.05 percent
(d) Alcoholic acidity as H2SO4 Not more than 0.1 percent.
(With 90 percent alcohol)
(e) Crude fibre (on dry basis) Not more than 0.75 percent.
12.5.150 “Rice flour or ground flour” shall be the product obtained by grinding, sound,
cleaned, milled rice. It shall conform to the following standards: -
12.5.151 “Pearl Barley” means the product obtained from sound and clean barley (Hordeum
vulgare or Hordeum distichon) It shall be whitish in colour and shall be free from fermented,
musty or other objectionable taste or odour, adulterants and insect and fungus infestation and
rodent contamination. It shall not contain other food grains more than 1 percent by weight.
Barley powder shall be the product obtained by grinding clean and
sound dehusked barley (Hordeum vulgare or Hordeum distichon)
grains.Barley starches shall not be less than 98.0 percent by mass.
Barley powder shall also conform to the following standards:-
(with 90 percent alcohol)
(e) Protein (N X 6.25) (on dry basis). Not less than 7.0 percent.
12.5.152 “Whole meal barley powder” means the product obtained by grinding clean and
sound dehusked barley (Hordeum vulgare or Hordeum distichon) grains. It shall conform to
the following standards: -
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(with 90 percent alcohol) (On
dry basis)
12.5.153 “Custard powder” means the product obtained from maize (Zea mays L.). It shall
be with or without the addition of edible common salt, milk and albuminous matter. It may
contain permitted colours and flavours. It shall be free from any other foreign matter. It shall
be in the form of fine powder, free from rancidity, fermented and musty odour. It shall conform
(b) Total ash excluding added Not more than 0.5 percent.
Common salt (on dry basis)
(with 90 percent alcohol)(on dry
basis)
12.5.154 “ Cereal – based food for infants and children” (1) means food based on cereal,
nut or legume (pulses) or combination thereof, with or without other wholesome food that is
sold as suitable for feeding to infants or children and includes:-
(a) Dry cereal, nut or legume(pulses) or combination thereof and flour derived from
them cooked or uncooked which may be enzyme treated and so fragmented as to
permit dilution with water, milk or other suitable liquid for human consumption.
(b) Pasta, which is food prepared from milled cereal, nut or legume (pulses) product or
combination thereof and which are used after cooking in boiling water or other
suitable liquid for human consumption.
(c) Rusk and biscuit prepared from cereal, nut or legume (pulses) or combination
thereof, produced by baking process. They may be consumed either directly, or, after
pulverization, with the addition of water, milk or other suitable liquid for human
consumption, and
(d) Milk biscuit which is based on cereal, nut or legume (pulses) or combination thereof
and milk.
(2) Cereal-based food for infants and children does not include food sold as infant formula
or canned food for infants and children.
(3) The total sodium content of cereal-based food for infants and children shall not exceed
70 mg /100g of ready-to-eat product.
(4) The minimum content of protein in cereal-based food for infants and children other than
cereal-based food for infants and children to be taken with water shall not be less than 15
percent on a water-free basis and the quality of the protein shall not be less than 70
percent of that of casein.
(5) Where cereal-based food for infants and children is to be taken with milk, it shall contain
not less than 6 percent of protein on ready-to-eat basis and the quality of the protein shall
not be less than 70 percent of that of casein.
(6) Milk biscuit shall contain not less than 10 percent of milk protein on a water-free basis.
(7) Cereal-based food for infants and children shall contain the nutrient specified given
below.
(1) (2) (3)
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NUTRIENT LEVEL (PER 100 kcal)
Nutrient Not less than Not more
than amount
amount.
Vitamin A (expressed as retinal) 250 I.U 500

I.U
Vitamin D 40 I.U 120 I.U
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine). 50 µg Not prescribed
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 60µg Not prescribed
Vitamin B6 35µg Not prescribed
Vitamin B12 0.15µg Not prescribed
Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) 8 mg Not prescribed
Folic acid 4 µg Not prescribed
Nicotinamide 250µg Not prescribed
Pantothenic acid 300µg Not prescribed.
Vitamin E 0.7 I.U Not prescribed
Vitamin K 4µg Not prescribed
Biotin (Vitamin H) 1.5 µg Not prescribed
Calcium (Ca) 50 mg Not prescribed
Phosphorus (P) 25 mg Not prescribed
Iron (Fe) 1 mg Not prescribed.
Iodine. 5 µg Not prescribed.
Notes:-
(i) Where the maximum amount of the nutrient is not prescribed, the total daily intake
of the nutrient arising from its uses in accordance with good manufacturing practice,
does not present a hazard to health.
(ii) The Ca:P ratio shall be not less than 1:2 and not more than 2:1
(8) Where any food is claimed to be cereal-based food for infants and children, there shall be
written on the label of a package containing such food the words “Cereal-based food for
infants and children”.
(9) There shall be written on the label of a package containing cereal-based food for infants
and children-
a) In not less than 10 point lettering, the words “NOT TO BE GIVEN TO INFANTS
BELOW 4 MONTHS OF AGE”.
b) IN NOT LESS THE 4 POINT LETTERING-
i) The form of cereal-based food for infants and children such as “cereal for infants
and children” or “Pasta for infants and children” or “Rusk for infants and
children” or “biscuit for infants and children” or “ milk biscuit for infants and
children”, as the case may be,
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ii) The common name of the cereal,
iii) The amount of energy, expressed in Kilocalorie(Kcal) or Kilojoules(KJ) or both
and the amount of protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamin and mineral content per
100 gram of the food as sold and as per specific quantity of the food as
suggested for consumption.
c) Direction on the method of preparing the food and instruction on its storage before
and
After the package has been opened, and
d) A statement that cereal-based food for infants and children shall not be fed through
bottle or clearly indicated any other words of similar meaning.
(10) The particulars that are required by paragraph of (C) of (9) may be written on the
accompanying leaflet.
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12.6 Spices
12.6.155.“Spice” means any aromatic vegetable substance in the whole, broken or ground
form, except for those substances which have been traditionally regarded as food, such as
onions; whose significant function in food is seasoning rather than nutritional. Spice shall be
the sound leaves, flowers, buds, fruits, seeds, barks or rhizomes of plants, that are suitable for
use as condiments for imparting any flavour or aroma to food and from which the oil or other
flavouring constituent naturally present has not been removed and includes the food for which a
standard is prescribed in these rules. The spices shall be free from living insects, insect
fragments and rodent contamination visible to the eyes. Spice may be whole or ground.
12.6.156. “Haldi or turmeric (whole)” means the dried rhizome or bulbous roots of the plant
of genus Curcuma longa L and includes turmeric in whatsoever form. It shall be free from
damage by insects, pests, lead chromate. It shall be free from any added colouring matters. It
(b) Total ash. Not more than 9.0 percent.
(c) Ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid. Not more than 1.5 percent.
(d) Lead. Not more than the permitted tolerance level.
12.6.157 “Haldi or turmeric (powder)” means the powder obtained by griding the dried
rhizomes or bulbous roots of the plant of genus Curcuma longa L. It shall be free from lead
chromate. It shall be free from any added colouring matter.
It shall conform to the following standards: -
(d) Lead. Not more than the permitted tolerance level.
12.6.158 “Zeera Siah, Cumin (whole)” means the dried sound fruit of Cumin cyminum. It
shall have the characteristic colour and aroma; and shall not have any exhausted seed. It shall
be free from any added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(b) Total ash. Not more than9.0 percent.
(d) Volatile essential oil. Not less than 3 percent.
12.6.159 “Zeera Siah Cumin (powder)” means the powder obtained from the dried seeds of
the Cumin cyminum. It shall have the characteristic aroma. It shall be free from any added
colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(d) Volatile essential oil. Not less than 3 percent.
12.6.160 “Zeera Sufaid (whole)” means the dried sound fruit of Carum carvi L. It shall have
the characteristic colour and aroma; and shall not have any exhausted seeds. It shall be free
from any added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture. Not more than 10 percent.
(d) Volatile essential oil. Not less than 1.5 percent
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12.6.161 “Zeera Sufaid (powder)” means the powder obtained from the dried sound fruit of
Carum carvi (L). It shall have the characteristic aroma. It shall be free from any added
(d) Volatile essential oil. Not less than 1.5 percent.
12.6.162 “Dhania or Coriander (whole)” means the dried sound fruit of Coriandrum
sativum and having the characteristic colour and aroma. It shall contain moisture not more than
10 percent.
12.6.163 “Dhania or Coriander (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding clean,
dried fruits of Coriandrum sativum (L) and having the characteristic aroma. It shall be free
from added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(b) Total ash. Not more than 9 percent.
12.6.164 “Ajwain” means the dried sound fruit of Carum copticum. It shall have the
characteristic colour and aroma; and shall not have any exhausted seeds. The seeds shall be free
from living insects, insect fragments and rodent contamination visible to the eyes. It shall
conform to the following standards:
12.6.165 “Mirch or Lal Mirch or Chilies (whole)”, means the dried ripe sound fruit of the
various species of Capsicum. (Capsicum annum and Capsicum frutescens). It shall be free from
added colouring matter, foreign oil, sand, grit or dirt or other foreign substances or substitutes,
harmful substances, mould growth and insect infestation. It shall contain moisture not more
than 12 per cent and non-volatile ether extract not less than 12 percent.
12.6.166 “Mirch or Lal Mirch or Chillies (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding
clean dried sound chilli pods of various species of Capsicum. The chilli powder shall be dry,
free from dirt, mould growth, insect infestation, extraneous matter, added colouring matter and
flavouring matter, foreign oil, sand and grit. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(d) Non-volatile ether extract. Not less than 12 percent.
(e) Butyro Refractive value at 400C of
the ether extract. Not less than 69.0
12.6.167 “Kali Mirch or Gol Mirch, Papper or Black Pepper (whole)” means the berries of
Piper nigrum L. brown to black in colour with wrinkled surface, having the characteristic
flavour, pungent taste and free from foreign starch and other extraneous matter, with or without
the husk. It shall contain moisture not more than 10 percent.
12.6.168 “Kali Mirch or Gol Mirch, Peper or Black pepper (powder)” means the powder
obtained by grinding the dried sound berries of Piper nigrum L. and shall be free from
extraneous matter and foreign starch. It shall be free from added colouring matter. It shall
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(d) Non-volatile ether extract. Not less than 7.0 percent.
(e) Volatile oil. Not less than 0.6 percent.
(f) Total starch on dry basis Not less than 30 percent.
12.6.169 “White pepper (Whole)” shall be the dried, mature ripe sound fruit of the plant
Piper nigrum, from which the outer coating of the fruit has been removed shall be free from
extraneous matter and foreign starch. It shall be free from any added colouring matter. It shall
12.6.170 “White pepper (powder)” shall be the dried, mature sound ripe fruit of the plant
Piper nigrum, from which the outer coating of the fruit has been removed. It shall be free from
added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
12.6.171 “Saunf or Fennel Fruit (whole)” means the dried ripe fruit of cultivated plants of
Foeniculum vulgare.The fruit shall be sound and free from sand, grit, and other dirt. It shall be
free from any added colouring matter. It shall contain moisture not more than 12 percent and
volatile oil not less than 4 percent.
12.6.172 “Saunf or Fennel Fruit (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding the dried
sound, ripe fruit of cultivated plants of Foeniculum vulgare and shall conform to the following
standards: -
(c) Ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid. Not more than 2 percent.
(d) Volatile oil. Not less than 4.0 percent.
12.6.173 “Methi or Fenugreek (whole)” means the dried sound ripe seeds of Trigonella
foenum-graecum. It shall free from dust, dirt, off odours, insects, etc. It shall contain moisture
not more than 10 percent. It shall be free from added colouring matter.
12.6.174 “Methi or Fenugreek (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding the dried
ripe seeds of Trigotnella foenumgraecum. It shall be free from added colouring matter. It shall
(c) Ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid. Not more than 2 percent.
(d) Water soluble extract. Not less than 30 percent.
12.6.175 “Jaifal or Nutmeg (whole)” means the dried seed of the fruit of Myristica fragrans.
It shall be sound, free from infestation and free from added colouring matter. It shall contain
non-volatile ether extract not less than 25 percent. It shall contain not more than 8 per cent
moisture.
12.6.176 “Jaifal or Nutmeg (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding the dried seed
(kemel) of the fruit of Myristica fragrans. It shall be sound and free from infestation, added
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(d) Non-volatile ether extract. Not less than 25.0percent.
(e) Essential volatile oil Not less than 7 percent.
12.6.177 “Javitri or Mace (whole)” means the dried outer coat of arillus of the fruit of
Myristica fragrans. It shall not contain the arilus of any other variety of Myristica nalabarica
or Fatua (Bombay mace) and Myristica argentea (Wild mace). It shall be sound and free from
infestation.
It shall be free from added coluring matter. It shall contain moisture not more than 7.0 per
cent,crude fibre not less than 10 percent and volatile essential oil not less than 7 percent.
12.6.178 “Javitri or Mace (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding the dried outer
coat of arillus of the fruit of Myristica fragrans. It shall not contain the arilus of any other
variety of Myristica nalabarica or Fatua (Bombay mace) and Myristica argentea (Wild mace).
(d) Non-volatile ether extract. Not less than 30.0percent.
12.6.179 “Dar Chini or Cinnamon (whole)” means the dried inner bark of Cinnamomum
zeylanicum. It shall neither contain any cassia nor any foreign vegetable substance and
colouring matter. It shall be free from insect damaged matter. It shall contain essential volatile
oil not less than 0.5 per cent and moisture not more than 12 per cent.
12.6.180 “Dar Chini or Cinnamon (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding the
dried inner bark of Cinnamomum zeylanicum. It shall neither contain any cassia nor any foreign
vegetable substance and colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
12.6.181 “Laung or Clorves (whole)” means the dried, unopened flower buds of Eugenia
Cartophylata, and free from exhausted cloves, foreign vegetable or mineral substances. The
cloves (on dry basis) shall contain not less than 15.0 per cent of volatile oil. It shall be free
from added colouring matter. It shall contain moisture not more than 12 per cent.
12.6.182 “Laung or Cloves (powder)” mean the powder obtained by grinding the dried
unopened flower, buds, of Eugenia Cartophylata. The cloves powder shall conform to the
following standards:
12.6.183 “Ginger (sonth, adrak) (whole)” means the washed and dried or the decorticated and
dried rhizome of Zingiberis officinale and free from damaged, insects, pests. It shall contain, on
dry basis, not less than 1.0 per cent of volatile oil and shall contain moisture not more than 13
per cent. It shall be free from added colouring matter
12.6.184 “Ginger (Sonth, Adrak) (powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding ginger
(Zingiberis officinal) whole. The powder shall conform to the following standards: -
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(c) Water soluble ash Not less than 1.7 percent
(d) Ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid. Not more than 1.0 percent.
(e) Cold water soluble extract. Not less than 10 percent.
(f) Alcohol (90 per cent) soluble extract. Not less than 4.5 per cent.
(g) Volatile oil. Not less than 1.0 per cent.
12.6.185 “Ilaichi, Chhoti Ilaichi, Cardamom or lesser Cardamom (whole) means the dried
sound, nearly ripe fruit of Electria cardamomum (L), free from sand, earth, dirt, grit and
admixture by substituted seeds.The cardomom seeds obtained from the capsules shall contain
not less than 3 per cent of volatile oil and shall contain moisture not more than 12 per cent It
shall be free from added colouring matter.
12.6.186 “Ilaichi, Chhoti Ilaichi, Cardamom or Lesser cardamom (powder), means the
powder obtained from the seeds separated from the capsules of Electria cardamomum (L). It
may be in the form of small pieces of the seeds or in finely ground form. It shall be free from
added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
12.6.187 “Ilaichi, Chhoti Ilaichi, Cardamom or Lesse Cardamom (seeds) means the seed
obtained by separating the seeds from the capsules of Elettaria cardamomum (L). The seeds
shall contain not less then 3.0 percent of volatile oil. It shall be free from added colouring
matter.
12.6.188 “Bari Ilaichi Greater cardamom (whole) means the dried sound nearly ripe fruit of
various species of genus Amomum sublulatum Roxb. It shall be free from added colouring
matter. It shall contain moisture not more than 12percent and volatile essential oil not less than
1 percent.
12.6.189 “Bari Ilaich Greater Cardamom (powder) means the powder obtained from the
seeds separated from the capsules of genus Amomum sublulatum Roxb. It may be in the form of
small pieces of the seeds or in finely ground form. It shall be free from added colouring matter.
12.6.190 “Bari Ilaichi Greater Caardamom (seeds)” means the seeds obtained by separating
the seeds from the cardamom Amomum capsules of genus Amomum sublulatum Roxb The seeds
shall contain not less than 1.0 percent of volatile oil. It shall contain moisture not more than 10
percent and shall be free from insect damaged seeds.
12.6.191 “Sowa or Aniseed (whole) means the dried sound, ripe fruit of Pimpinella Anisum,
having the characteristic appearance and free from sand, earth, dirt, grit and admixture by
substituted seeds. It shall be free from added colouring matter. It shall contain volatile oil not
less than 2 percent and moisture not more than 12 percent.
12.6.192 “Zafran or kesar or saffron means the dried sound stigmata and tops of style of
Crocus sativus (L), and free from foreign colouring matter or any other foreign matter, organic
or inorganic. It shall not lose more than 12 percent of its weight when dried at 100 0C to a
constant weight. The petroleum extract shall not be less than 5 percent. It shall conform to the
following standards:
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(b) Volatile oil. Not less than 14.0 percent
(c) Total ash on dry basis. Not more than 7.5 percent.
(d) Ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid. Not more than 1.0 percent.
(e) Aqueous extract. Not less than 55.0 percent.
(f) Total Nitrogen. Not less than 2.0 percent.
(g) Floral waste defined
as yellow filaments. Pollen, stamens
parts of ovary and other parts of flowers
of Crocus sativus (Linn). Not more than 10.0 percent.
12.6.193 “Khash-khash or Poppy seed means the dried ripe sound seed from the fruit of the
Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum. The seeds may be white or greyish in colour. It shall
(a) Total ash. Not more than 8.0 percent.
(b) Oil. Not less than 40.0 percent.
(c) Harmless foreign matter dust, seeds etc. Not more than 5.0
percent.
12.6.194 “Mustard (rai, sarson) whole means the dried sound seeds of various species of
genus Brassica. It shall be free from seeds of Argemone maxicana Linn. The seeds shall be free
from damaged and colouring matter.
12.6.195 “Mustard or compound mustard or mustard condiment or mustard powder
means the powder obtained by grinding the dried seeds of various species of genus Brassica
with or without amylaceous matter and with or without spices; provided that the proportion of
amylaceous matter and spices, if any, shall not together exceed 20 percent. It shall yield not
less than 0.35 per cent of allylisothiocyanate after maceration with water for two hours at 37oC.
The test for argemone oil shall be negative. It shall be free from added colouring matter. It shall
conform to the following standards.
(c) Ash insoluble in dilute hydrochloric acid. Not more than 2.0 percent.
(d) Starch. Not more than 15.0 percent.
(e) Volatile oil. Not less than 0.25 percent.
(f) Non-volatile ether extracts Not less than 22.0 percent.
12.6.196 “Curry powder” means the powder obtained from grinding clean, dried and sound
spices belonging to the group of aromatic herbs and seeds such as black pepper, cinnamon,
cloves, coriander, ginger, cardamom, chillies, mace, nutmeg, curry leaves, white pepper,
saffron and aniseeds. It shall contain not less than 85 per cent of condiments and spices and
shall not contain more than 10 per cent of farinaceous matter and salt. It shall be free from
added starch and colouring matter. The aromatic seeds and herbs enumerated constitute the
proper ingredients and not more than two or all of these may be used at the discretion of the
manufacturer in the preparation of the curry powder: provided that the addition of any
substances other than the aromatic seeds and herbs enumerated shall be made in lieu of, or
partial of replacement of farinaceous material and/or salt. The percentage of ingredients of
curry powder shall be specified on the label in the descending order. It shall conform to the
(b) Ash insoluble in dilute hydrochloric acid. Not more than 1.0 percent.
On salt free basis.
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(c) Edible Common Salt. Not more than 5 percent.
(e) Non-volatile ether extracts. Not less than 7.5 percent.
12.6.197 “Garam Masalla, (whole)” means a mixture in any proportion of two or more a
mixture of aromatic herbs, spices and condiments and free from salt, turmeric, coriander,
ajwain, fenugreek, chillies, farinaceous matter, sand, grit, dirt and dust. It shall also not contain
dried vegetable and/or fruits, oil seeds, garlic, ginger, poppy seeds, and curry leaves. The
percentage of ingredients used shall be specified on the label in the descending order of the
weights used. It shall be free from added colouring matter, mould growth and insect infestation.
It shall contain volatile oil not less than 0.75 percent and moisture not more than 12 percent.
12.6.198 “Garam Masalla,(powder)” means the powder obtained by grinding a mixture of
two or more a mixture of aromatic herbs, spices and condiments, and free from starch, salt,
turmeric, chillies, farinaceous matter, sand, grit, dirt and dust, dried vegetable and/or fruits, oil
seeds, garlic, ginger, poppy seeds, and curry leaves, any colouring matter, mould growth and
insect infestation. It shall conform to the following standards: -
12.6.199 “Pimento” means the dried sound, ripe fruit of the plant Pimento officialis. It shall
(c) Volatile essential oil. Not less than 2.4 percent.
12.6.200 “Dill seed” means the dried sound fruit of the plant Anethum graveolens. It shall
(a) Total ash. Not more than 10.0 percent.
(b) Ash Insoluble in Hydrochloric acid. Not more than 3.0 percent.
(c) Volatile essential oil. Not less than 2.5 percent.
12.6.201 “Asafoetida (Hing or Hingra) means the oleo-gum-resin obtained from the rhizome
and roots of Ferula alliaces, Ferula rubricaulis and other species of Ferula. It shall not contain
any colophony resin, galbonum resin, ammoniaccum resin or any other foreign resin. It shall be
free from added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards.
(a) Total ash. Not more than 15 percent.
(b) Ash Insoluble in Hydrochloric acid. Not more than 2.5 percent.
(c) The alcoholic extract
(With 90 per cent alcohol)
Not less than 12 percent.
(d) Starch. Not more than 1 percent.
12.6.202 “Dried Mango Slices,” means the dried wholesome, edible part of raw mango fruit
with or without the outer skin. It shall be free from fungus, moulds and insect infestation,
rodent contamination, added colouring and flavouring matter. It shall also be free from
deleterious substances injurious to health. It shall not contain any preservative except edible
common salt, which may be added to the extent of 5 per cent on dry basis. It shall have
characteristic taste and flavour. It shall conform to the following standards:-
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(a) Moisture Not more than 12 percent.
(b) Damaged Slices Not more than 5 percent.
(c) Seed Coatings. Not more than 6 percent.
Explanation:-
i) Seed coatings shall be exterior covering of the seed.
ii) Damaged slices means the slices that are eaten by weevils or other insects and
includes slices internally damaged by fungus, moisture or heating.
12.6.203 “Dried Mango Powder (Amchur)” means the powder obtained by grinding clean
and dried mango Slices having characteristic taste and flavour. It shall be free from musty,
odour and objectionable flavour, rodent contamination, mould, fungus and insect infestation,
extraneous matter and added colouring and flavouring matter. It shall also be free from
deleterious substances injurious to health. It shall not contain any preservative except edible
common salt, which may be added to the extent of 5 percent on dry basis. It shall also conform
to the following standards: -
(b) Total ash (salt-free-basis). Not more than 6 percent.
(c) Ash insoluble (in dilute HCl) on salt free basis. Not more than 1.5 percent.
(d) Acidity as anhydrous tartaric acid. Not less than 12 percent
and
Not more than 26.0
percent.
12.6.204 “Kalonji whole” means the sound seeds of Nigella sative L. It shall be free from
added colouring matter and shall contain moisture not more than 12 percent, and volatile oil not
less than 0.5percent.
12.6.205 “Kalonji powder” means the powder obtained by grinding the dried sound seeds of
Nigella sativa L. It shall be free from added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following
standards: -
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12.8 Meat And Meat Product
12.8.256 “Meat or fresh meat”, means the edible part of the skeletal muscle of a Halal
animal, other than fish, that is normally used for human consumption and that was healthy at
the time of slaughter and shall be slaughtered in accordance with Islamic injunction. It may
contain accompanying and overlying fat together with portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and
blood vessels that normally accompany the muscle tissue and are not separated from it in the
process of dressing. For the purposes of these rules, lean meat shall be meat from which the
overlying fat has been removed. It shall not contain more than 10 per cent of total fat and 75
percent water.
12.8.257 Chilled meat means the meat that has been maintained in a wholesome condition at a
temperature between minus 1°C to 10°C and includes frozen meat that has been thawed at a
temperature of not more than 5 °C.
12.8.258 Frozen meat, means meat that for one continuous period from the time of preparation
for sale has been maintained at a temperature below minus 18°C and shall not have been
thawed before sale. The temperature of frozen meat at any time does not exceed minus 120 C.
12.8.259 Minced meat or ground meat, means the fresh, chilled, or frozen meat that has been
disintegrated by mincing or chopping. It shall not contain meat of different animal origin and
fat not more than 10 percent.
12.8.260 Meat Product, means the product prepared from meat
12.8.261 Meat or meat product shall not contain estrogen residue (growth hormones). No
meat or meat product shall contain residue of the following compounds.
(a) Diethylstilbestrol [3,4-bis (p-hydroxyphen)-3-hexene];
(b) Hexoestrol [3, 4-bis (p-hydroxyphenyl)-n-hexane];
(c) Dienoestrol [3, 4-bis (p-hydroxyphenyl)-2, 4-hexadiene]
12.8.262 “Meat paste”, means paste, which includes meat spread, prepared from Halal meat,
cooked or uncooked, with or without other food. It shall be readily spreadable product with a
meat content of not less than 70 per cent in the form of finely divided meat and not less than 60
per cent of the meat content shall be lean meat. It shall be free from every particle of bone,
gristle, grittiness, objectionable flavour, pathogenic microorganism or bacterial toxins or any
harmful substance and shall be pleasant in taste and smell. It shall conform to the following
standards.
(a) Protein Not less than 18 per cent
(b) Fat Not more than 12.5 per cent
(c) Ash Not more than 2.5 per cent
12.8.263 Sausages mean the products, which are cooked ground, chopped or comminuted meat
with seasoning or cured and formed. Meat shall be fresh and obtained from healthy Halal
animals. It shall be free from clots, bone, skin, gristle, serous membranes, coarse connective
tissue, pathogenic organisms, bacterial toxins and any harmful substance. It shall be stuffed in
natural / artificial casing. It shall contain not less than 60 per cent of meat content to be lean
meat and shall also conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture Not more than 4 times the percentage of
protein
(b) Protein Not less than 18 per cent
(c) Fat Not more than 12.0 per cent
(d) Ash Not more than 2.5 per cent
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12.8.264 “Meat with other food” means the product prepared from meat with other food with
or without vegetables, cereals, edible fat/oils, seasoning, spices, salt etc. Without soup it shall
(a) Meat Not less than 35 per cent
12.8.265 “Shami Kabab” means a product prepared from meat with gram flour and with or
without seasoning, spices, salt and coated with egg paste and fried with edible fat/oil. It shall
contain not less than 50 per cent of meat.
12.8.266 Kabab, Seekh Kabab, Qeema Tikki, Qeema Ki Tikki means a product prepared
from meat with seasoning, spices, salt, edible fats/oil. The meat used shall be free from gristle,
bone, skin, clots, and serous membrane, coarse, connective tissue. It shall contain not less than
70 per cent in the form of finely divided meat and not less than 60 per cent of the meat content
shall be lean meat. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Protein Not less than 18 per cent
12.8.267 “Burger, chicken Burger, Mutton Burger, Beef Burger, fish Burger” means the
minced meat product comprising a minimum of 80 per cent meat with or without the addition
of cereal, spices, salt, herbs, sugar, vinegar, sodium caseinate or other foodstuffs made into a
flat shape, fried and sandwiched with bread roll. The weight of bread shall not be more than the
weight of burger. Burger shall contain not less than 18 per cent protein.
12.8.268 Meat extracts, meat essences and meat juices means the product obtained by
extracting fresh meat with boiling water and concentrating the liquid by evaporation after
removal of the fat. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Total solid matter. Not less than 75 per cent
(b) Sodium chloride. Not more than 12 per cent.
(c) Fat Not less than 0.6 per cent
(d) Nitrogen. Not less than 8 per cent.
(e) Nitrogenous compounds. Not less than 40 per cent.
12.8.269 “Hunter Beef” means a product prepared from a clean, wholesome beef meat
obtained from a healthy animal free from disease and sickness. It shall be properly cured with
sodium chloride, vinegar or lime/lemon juice and with or without curing mixture (sodium
nitrite, sodium nitrate) and baked to give it an acceptable texture. It shall be free from
pathogenic organisms, bacterial toxins and any deleterious substance. It shall conform to the
(a) Moisture. Not more than 15 per cent
(b) Protein. Not less than 35 per cent
(c) Fat. Not more than 10 per cent.
(d) Sodium chloride. Not more than 5 per cent
(e) Lead. Not more than 2 mg/ Kg.
12.8.270 Meat cubes (Chicken, Mutton, beef) means a product prepared from hydrolysed
protein, meat stock, flour, yeast extract, caramel, salt, meat extract, meat fat, desiccated meat,
spices and seasoning and other flavouring .It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture. Not more than 5.0 per cent
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(b) Nitrogen Not less than 5.0 per cent
(c) Ash. Not more than 32 per cent.
(d) Salt Not more than 27 per cent
(e) Fat. 3 –6 per cent
12.8.271 Canned meat shall be prepared from the meat of Halal healthy animals free from
disease and sickness, slaughtered in accordance with the Islamic Injunction. The canned meat
shall consist of meat, with its accompanying and portions of its overlying fat, in moderately
sized pieces free from portions of head, neck, skin, shin, hock, blood bone, skirt, sinew, hard
gristle, glands and viscera etc. It shall be packed in clean containers that are processed and
hermetically sealed by heat to ensure preservation. It may contain water, salts, condiments,
spices and permitted preservatives, flavouring substances. A can shall contain lean meat of one
kind of animal only and not less than 90 per cent meat.
12.8.272 Meat canned with other food” means the meat product prepared from meat of Halal
healthy animals free from disease and sickness, slaughtered in accordance with the Islamic
Injunctions, with other food, and processed. The meat used shall consist of fresh skeletal
muscle of animals with its accompanying and portions of its overlying fat, in moderately sized
pieces free from portions of head, neck, skin, shin, hock, blood, bone skirt, sinew, hard gristle,
glands and viscera etc. It shall be packed in clean containers that are hermetically sealed and
processed by heat to ensure preservation. It may contain permitted preservatives and flavouring
substances. It shall contain lean meat of one kind animal only and not less than 40 per cent of
meat.
There shall be written on the label of a package containing canned meat with other food
the words “meat with (state the name of other food)” or any other word or words having
the same or a similar effect.
12.8.273 Particular labelling requirements of meat and meat products. There shall be
written on the label of a package containing meat and meat product, in not less than 10 point
lettering—
“The common name of the kind of meat from which its content has been prepared”
12.8.274 Fish shall be any edible and wholesome part of any marine or fresh water Halal
animal other than a mammal that is commonly used for human consumption.
12.8.275 Chilled fish shall be fish, which has been maintained in a wholesome condition at a
temperature between minus 1°C to 10°C and includes frozen fish that has been thawed at a
temperature of not more than 5°C.
12.8.276 Frozen fish shall be the fish that for one continuous period has been maintained in a
wholesome condition at a temperature below minus 18°C and that has not been thawed before
use.
12.8.277 Fish product shall be any product prepared from fish and includes the food for which
a standard is prescribed in these rules.
12.8.278 Cured, pickled fish shall be fish product prepared from cooked or uncooked fish that
has been treated with salt, sugar, vinegar or spices. It may contain permitted flavour enhancer
and ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate, isoascorbate, isoascorbic acid or sodium isoascorbate as
permitted food conditioner.
12.8.279 Smoked fish shall be fish product that is prepared from cured, pickled or salted fish
that has been maintained in a wholesome condition, with or without the addition of salt and
subjected to the action of smoke derived from wood that is free from paint or timber
preservative and / or treated with permitted synthetic smoke preparations.
12.8.280 Fish, Dried, Unsalted or Salted; the following requirements shall be fulfilled: -
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(i) The fish shall be supplied in such species, forms, types and varieties which are
Halal and fit for human consumption.
(ii) The fish shall be supplied, filleted, split, chunked or in such other form as may
be required by the purchaser.
(iii) All fish in these standards shall be cured, dried, handled and delivered under
sanitary conditions, in accordance with good commercial practice.
(iv) All fish in these standards shall be sound, wholesome and in every way fit for
human consumption.
(v) All fish in these standards shall be properly processed and thoroughly washed
before curing.
(vi) Unless otherwise specified by the purchaser the dried fish shall be good quality.
(vii) No colouring matter shall be used and no method of presentation and publicity
concerning the material shall be made in a manner likely to mislead the
purchaser or consumer as to the true nature of composition of the material as a
whole.
(viii) Salt used for salting purposes shall conform to the standard of common salt
prescribed in these rules.
(ix) The product shall conform to the following specifications:-
(a) Moisture and volatile matter. Not more than 5 percent

(b) Acid insolable ash Not more than 2.5 percent
(c) Salt (as NaCI) in case of salted product not more than 15 percent
12.8.281 Prepared fish shall be fish product prepared from fish or cured, pickled, salted or
smoked fish, whether whole or comminuted, cooked or uncooked and may be canned. Prepared
fish also includes dried prepared fish.
Prepared fish may contain flavour enhancer and permitted food conditioner.
12.8.282 “Dried prepared fish” shall be fish product prepared by drying fish that has been
treated with or without addition of other foods. It shall be dried under natural / artificially
induced conditions.
12.8.283 Canned fish shall be fish or prepared fish packed in clean containers that are
hermetically sealed and processed by heat to ensure preservation. It may contain condiments,
water, brine, sauce and edible oils.
Canned fish shall contain not less than 55 per cent of fish.
12.8.284 Fish paste shall be a paste prepared from one or more kinds of fish, with or without
other wholesome foodstuffs and condiments. It shall be clean, wholesome and free from
extraneous matter. It shall contain not less than 70 per cent of fish
12.8.285 Fried Fish/Fried fish coated with gram flour, means the fish free from fins, head,
neck, viscera, extraneous matter and fried in edible frying vegetable oil except palm oil,
palmolein. In the case of coated with gram flour paste (basin) the fish shall be not less than 85
per cent.
12.8.286 Fish sauce shall be the fish product in the form of liquid prepared from fresh fish,
other than shell-fish, with salt fermentation.
(a) It shall contain not less than
(i) 15 per cent of salt; and
(ii) Not less than 5 per cent of protein;
(b) May contain other food; and
(c) Shall be clean and wholesome and shall not contain other extraneous matter.
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Fish sauce may contain permitted preservative, caramel as a colouring substance and
permitted flavour enhancer.
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12.9 Water
“Use of Water, Ice, Steam” (1) Water shall be clean and free from contamination,
objectionable taste and odour, sediments, and shall conform to the maximum permissible limits
for drinking water prescribed by 12.9.289
(2) In these rules any reference to potable water shall be taken to be a reference to “water as
specified in sub-rule (1).
(3) Ice and steam shall be the product derived from water that conforms to the standard for
water prescribed in sub-rule (1).
“Bottled Water or packaged drinking water”: - Bottled water, packaged drinking water
shall be potable water or treated potable water, other than natural mineral water that is
hermetically sealed in bottles or other containers with no added ingredients and is intended for
human consumption. It shall conform to the following standards:-
Standard For Water And Packaged Drinking Water
1 Physical Standard:
Physical properties Maximum permitted proportion
Colour. 5 NTU
Turbidity (Nephelometric turbidity unit) 5
Odour Unobjectionable
Taste Unobjectionable
2 Chemical Standard:
(a) pH 6.5 to 8.5
(b) Chemicals
Chemicals Maximum permitted proportion in
milligram per litre (mg / L)
Total dissolved solids (TDS) 500
Aluminium (as Al) 0.2
Ammonia (as NH3) 0.5
Antimony 0.005
Arsenic (as As) 0.01
Barium 0.7
Cadmium (as Cd) 0.003
Chloride (as Cl) 250
Chromium (as Cr) 0.05
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Copper (as Cu) 1.0
Cyanide (as CN) 0.07
Fluoride (as F) 0.7
Iron (as Fe) 0.3
Lead (as Pb) 0.01
Calcium 100
Magnesium 50
Manganese (as Mn) 0.05
Mercury (as Hg) 0.001
Nitrate (as NO3) 10
Potassium 10
Residual chlorine (Free) 0.1
Selenium (Se) 0.01
Silver (as Ag) 0.1
Sodium (as Na) 50
Sulphate (as SO4) 250
Zinc (as Zn) 3.0
(c) Pesticides.
Pesticides Maximum permitted proportion in
milligram per litre (mg / L)
Aldrin / Dieldrin 0.002
Chlordane 0.002
2,4-Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid 0.07
Heptachlor and 0.0004
Heptachlor Epoxide Heptachlorobenzene 0.0002
Lindane 0.0002
Methoxychlor 0.04
Carbon tetrachloride 0.002
Dichloromethane 0.003
P-dichlorobenzene 0.02
1,2 dichloroethene 0.02
Cis1,2 dichloroethlene 0.07
Trans-1,2 dichloroeathylene 0.1
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1,2-dichloropropane 0.005
Ethylbenze 0.3
Monochlorobenze 0.05
Styrene 0.1
Tetrachloroethylene 0.001
Trichloroethylene 0.001
Toluene 1.0
1,1-1trichloroethane 0.03
1,1-2.2 Tetrachloroethane 0.04
Vinyl chloride 0.002
Xylenes 1.0
Alachlor 0.002
Aldicarb 0.003
Atrazin 0.003
Carbofuran 0.04
1,2 dibromo-3 chloropropane 0.001
2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid 0.07
Pentachlorophenol 0.001
Simazine 0.004
2,4,5-TP 0.01
Di (2-ethryloxy) adipate 0.08
Di (2-ethylexy) Phthalate 0.006
Total Trichlorobenzenes 0.009
Hexa Chlorobenzenes 0.001
Diquat 0.02
(d) Bacteriological Standard:
Coliform Shall be zero per 250ml
Organism
Escherichia Shall be zero per 250ml.
coli
Faecal Shall be zero in 250ml
Streptococci.
Pseudomonas Shall be zero in 250ml
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aeruginosa.
Note: The sample collected after 12 hours of bottling will not be applicable for total plate
count analysis (TPC)
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(e) Radioactivity.
Gross α 0.1Bq/l
Gross β 1Bq/l
There shall be written on the label of a package containing drinking water__

(a) The words “Drinking Water” or “Bottled Water” and
(b) The name of water that, after treatment and possible replacement of carbon dioxide,
contains the same amount of carbon dioxide from the source that it had at emergence
from the source may be “Sparking bottled water”.
12.9.289 “Natural mineral Water” shall be ground water which is obtained for human
consumption from subterrean water bearing strata through spring, well, bore or other exit, with
or without the addition of carbon dioxide.
(1). Natural mineral water shall be---
(a) Obtained directly from the point of natural emergence or artificial abstraction of the
water and collected under conditions which guarantee its original bacteriological
purity and
(b) Packaged or container as close as may practicable to the point of emergence of the
source in accordance with good hygienic practice.
(c) No person shall transport any natural mineral water in bulk for the purpose of
processing or packaging.
(2). (a) Natural mineral water may only be subjected to one or more of the following
treatments;
i) Separation from unstable constituents by decantation or filtration or by both
decantation and filteration;
ii) Chlorination followed by dechlorination;
iii) Aeration;
iv) Deaeration;
v) Carbonation;
vi) Decarbonation;
vii) Ultraviolet sterilization;
viii) Ozone treatment;
ix) Pasteurization.
(b) Natural mineral water shall not contain any of the following contaminants;
(i). Phenolic compounds;
(ii). Surface active agents;
(iii). Pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls;
(iv). Mineral oil;
(v). Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.
(c) No natural mineral water shall be fortified or enriched.
3. It shall conform to the following standards:-

a. Chemical Standard:
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Chemicals Maximum permitted proportion in
milligram per litre (mg/L)
Arsenic 0.01
Antimony (Sb) 0.005
Barium 1.0
Borate (calculated as H3BO3) 1
Cadmium 0.003
Copper 1.0
Chromium (Cr) 0.05
Cyanide (calculated as CN− ) 0.070
Fluoride (calculated as F− ) 1.5
Lead 0.010
Manganese 0.500
Mercury 0.001
Nitrate (calculated as NO3− ) 10.0
Nitrites (calculated as NO2− ) 0.020
Selenium 0.010
Sulphate 100
b. Bacteriological Standard:
Coliform Organism Shall be zero per 250 ml
Escherichia Coli. Shall be zero per 250 ml
(c) Radioactivity.
Gross α 0.1 Bq/l
Gross β 1Bq/l
(4). There shall be written on the label of a package containing natural mineral water—
(i). The words “natural mineral water” or where the product contains added carbon
dioxide the words “carbonated natural mineral water”
(ii). If the total dissolved solids content of mineral water is below 500 mg/L or if it is
greater than 1,500 mg / L, the statement “Low mineral content” or “High mineral
content” immediately and conspicuously preceded or followed by the words
“Natural Mineral Water” or “Carbonated Natural Mineral Water” as the case may
be, without intervening written, printed, graphic matter, or any other device.
(iii). The amount of total dissolved solids present in mg/L
(iv). The name of the mineral contents present and the amount in mg/L in which each is
present
(v). The pH value of the natural mineral water; and
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(vi). The location of the source and the nature of the source.
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12.7 Fruit And Vegetable Products
Fruit And Fruit Products
12.7.206 “Raw Fruit or Fresh Fruit” shall be the fruit that is not dried, pulped, dehydrated,
frozen, canned, candied or pickled. It shall not be withered, shriveled, discoloured or bruised.
12.7.207 “Dried Fruit” shall be the clean, sound, wholesome of any suitable variety fully ripe
and free from insect or fungal attack or any other blemish affecting the quality of the dried
product. The dried product shall be derived from such fruits as apples, apricots, peaches, pears,
resins, sultans, figs, currants, dates, plum and others. It shall be free from added ingredients
and colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) For all fruits except dried dates.
Moisture. Not more than 14 percent.
Damaged fruits. Not more than 5 percent.
(a) For dried dates.
Moisture. Not more than 12 percent.
Shrivelled fruits. Not more than 15 percent
Damaged fruits. Nil.
12.7.208 “Mixed Dried Fruit” shall be the product prepared by mixing dried fruits and shall
conform to the standards of dried fruit. It shall contain not less than 70% of dried fruit and may
contain not more than 15% of citrus peel. There shall be written on the label of a package
containing mixed dried fruit the word “mixed dried fruit” (state the name of the fruit), as the
case may be.
12.7.209 “Fruit Products” means any food prepared from clean, sound, wholesome fruit.
12.7.210 “Dried Salted Fruit” shall be the product by treating fruit with salt, with or without
sugar, and dried under natural or artificially induced condition.
12.7.211 “Canned Fruit”, means the food prepared from clean, fresh fruit, approaching
maturity and not over ripe. It shall be free from blemishes, stalks, leaves and other extraneous
matter and shall be the sound, wholesome fruit of one type, packed in clean containers that are
hermetically sealed processed by heat. Canned fruit may contain sugar and potable water. The
fruit so contained shall be of similar varietal characteristics and of reasonably uniform size.
When the fruit is required to be cut, it shall be cut in halves, quarters, or cubes reasonablly
uniform in size. It shall be free from added colouring matter. It shall conform to the following
standards:
(a) Drained weight. Not less than 40 per cent of the net weight of
contents
(b) Concentration of packing syrup. Not more than 17.5 degrees Brix.
(c) Fill of Container Head space not more than 10 per cent of the inside
height of the can or bottle.
12.7.212 “Canned Fruit Cocktail”, shall be a mixture of two or more types of sound,
wholesome fruits packed in clean containers that are hermetically sealed and processed by
heat. Canned fruit cocktail may contain sugar and potable water. It shall be free from added
colouring matter and may contain permitted food conditioner.
12.7.213 “Fruit Juice” (1) shall be unfermented and unconcentrated liquids expressed from
sound, ripe and fresh of one or more species of fruits of best quality. It shall be attractive in
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appearance, free from objectionable flavours and any kind of deterioration. It shall be free from
artificial colouring matter, flavouring agents, mineral acids, adulterant and preservatives other
than permitted preservatives.
(a) The acidity of fruit juice, calculated as anhydrous citric acid, unless otherwise
prescribed for a particular type of fruit juice, shall contain not more than 3.5 per cent
m/v.
(b) The total soluble solids of fruit juice, unless otherwise prescribed for a particular type
of fruit, shall not be less than 8 g in 100 ml measured at 20°C.
(c) Concentrated fruit juice or fruit juice concentrate shall be the expressed juice of one
or more species of fruit, concentrated to the extent that the product has a soluble solid
content of not less than double the content of the original juice and may be filtered or
unfiltered.
12.7.214 “Apple Juice” shall be the fruit juice of mature apple of the species Pyrus malus. It
(a) Soluble solids. Not less than 11.5 g in 100ml at 200C
(b) Acidity calculated as malic acid. Not less than 0.3 g and Not more than 0.8 g in
100 ml at 200C
(c) Volatile acid. Not less than 0.04ml in 100ml at 200C
(d) Ethanol content. Not more than 0.5 g/100 grams.
(e) Mineral impurities Insoluble in
10 per cent Hydrochloric acid. Not more than 20mg/Kg.
12.7.215 “Grape Fruit Juice” shall be the fruit juice of mature grape fruit of the species citrus
paradise or of hybrids of that species or of hybrids of the species Citrus macfayden. It shall
(a) Soluble solids. Not less than 9.0g in 100ml at 200C
(b) Acidity calculated As
Anhydrous citric acid. Not less than 1g and not more than 2g
in100ml
at 200C.
(c) Essential oil Not more than 0.03ml in 100ml at 200C
(d) Ethanol content. Not more than 0.3g /100 grams
(e) Sugar (added) Not more than 5 percent.
12.7.216 “Lemon Juice”, shall be the fruit juice of mature lemon of the species Citrus lemon
or of hybrids of that species. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(b) Acidity calculated As
anhydrous citric acid. Not less than 4.5g in 100ml at 200C
(c) Essential oil Not more than 0.05ml in 100ml at 200C
12.7.217 “Lime Juice” shall be the fruit juice of mature lime of the species Citrus aurantifolia
or of hybrids of that species. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(b) Acidity calculated
As anhydrous citric acid. Not less than 5g in100ml at 200C
12.7.218 “Orange Juice”shall be the fruit juice of mature orange of the species Citrus sinensis
or citrus reticulate or of hybrids of these species. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(b) Acidity calculated as
anhydrous citric acid. Not less than 0.65g and not more than 1.5g in
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100 ml at 200C.
(c) Essential oil. Not more than 0.04ml in 100 ml at 200C
(d) Ethanol content. Not more than 0.3g/100 grams
(e) Sugar (added). Not more than 5 percent.
12.7.219 “Pineapple Juice” shall be the fruit juice of mature pineapple of the species Ananas
comosus.It shall conform to the following standards:-
(b) Ethanol content. Not more than 0.3g/100 grams
(c) Sugar (added). Not more than 2.5 percent.
(d) It shall be free from citric acid and malic acid when the juice has been sweetened with
sugar.
Explanations:
(i) The juices made from the concentrates, shall conform to the standards laid down in
these Rules.
(ii) In the case of orange juice and pineapple juice made from their concentrates shall
contain soluble solids (exclusive added sugar) not less than 11g in 100ml at 200C
for orange juice and not less than 13.5g in 100ml at 200C for pineapple.
12.7.220 Particular labelling requirement of fruit juice: - (1) There shall be written on the
label of a package containing fruit juice or concentrated fruit juice.
(a) The name of the fruit from which the juice has been prepared, and
(b) Where the product is composed of the juice of more than one type of fruit the words
“mixed fruit juice” and the name of the fruit juice present in descending order of the
proportion present along with their percentage.
(2) Where sugar has been added to fruit juice or concentrated fruit juice, there shall be written
on the label of a package containing such juice, the words “contains added sugar” or any other
word or words having the same or similar effect.
(3) There shall be written on the label of a package containing concentrated fruit juice a
statement giving direction for dilution to produce a juice of approximately the same standard as
prescribed for fruit juice in these rules.
(4) The word “concentrate” or “concentrated” shall not appear on a package containing
concentrated fruit juice unless it is conjoined in uniform lettering of not less than 10 point with
the words “fruit juice”.
(5) There shall be written on the label of a package containing such juice prepared from
concentrate, the words “(A) juice made from concentrate”, “Reconstituted (A) juice”, or “(A)
juice made from concentrated (A) juice” as the case may be, without intervening written,
printed, graphic matter and any other device in equal lettering.
12.7.221 “Fruit Syrup” means sweetened fruit juice containing sugar, dextrose, invert sugar
or liquid glucose, high fructose syrup, either singly or in combination, with or without potable
water, peel oil, fruit essences (derived from fruits) natural flavours, common salt, citric acid,
ascorbic acid, permitted preservatives and permitted colour. It shall contain not less than 65 per
cent of total soluble solids and not less than 25 per cent of fruit juice in the final product. The
percentage of fruit juice it contains shall be clearly indicated on the label.
12.7.222 “Fruit Squash” means the expressed juice of the sound ripe fruit with the pulp
containing sugar, dextrose, invert sugar or liquid glucose, high fructose glucose either singly or
in combination with or without potable water, peel oil, fruit essences (derived from fruits) or
natural flavours, common salt, citric acid, ascorbic acid, permitted preservatives and permitted
colours. It shall contain not less than 40 per cent of total soluble solids and not less than 25 per
cent of fruit juice in the final product. The percentage of fruit juice it contains shall be clearly
indicated on the label. The acidity of the finished product shall conform to the standards
prescribed for fruit juice.
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12.7.223 “Flavoured syrup or Flavoured Cordial” means the soft drink composed of syrup
and natural flavouring substances with or without edible portions or extracts of one or more
types of fruit or other plant substance. It may contain permitted preservative, permitted
colouring substance and permitted food conditioner.
12.7.224 “Fruit Juice Drink” means soft drink composed of potable water, unfermented fruit
juice or an unfermented mixture of the juice and other edible portions of one or more types of
fruits, with or without sugar, glucose or high fructose glucose syrup and shall contain not less
than 35 per cent m/m of fruit juice. It may contain carbon dioxide, permitted preservative,
permitted colouring substance, natural flavouring substance and permitted food conditioner.
The percentage of fruit juice it contains shall be clearly indicated on the label.
There shall be written on the label of a package containing fruit juice drink.
(a) Where the product is composed of the juice and other edible portions of only one type of
fruit, the name of the fruit from which it has been prepared; and
(b) Where the product is composed of the juice and other edible portion of more than one type
of fruit, the words “mixed fruit juice drink”.
12.7.225 “Fruit Beverage or Fruit Drink or Fruit Crush” any beverage or drink which is
purported to be prepared from fruit juice and potable water or carbonated water, by whatever
name it is called, and containing sugar, dextrose, invert sugar, or liquid glucose, either singly
or in combination and with or without peel oil, fruit essences (derived from fruit) or natural
flavours, citric acid, ascorbic acid, permitted preservatives and permitted colours. It shall
contain total soluble solids not less than 10 per cent and not less than 5 per cent of fruit juice in
the final product. The percentage of fruit juice it contains shall be clearly indicated on the
label.
There shall be written on the label of a package containing fruit beverage, fruit drink, fruit
crush:
(a) Where the product is composed of the juice and other edible portions of only one type of
fruit, the name of the fruit from which it has been prepared; and
(b) Where the product is composed of the juice and other edible portions or more than one
type of fruit, the words “mixed fruit drink”, “mixed fruit beverage”, “mixed fruit crush” as the
case may be.
12.7.226 “Flavoured Drink” means any beverage or drink which is purported to be composed
of potable water and natural flavouring substance, with sugar, dextrose, invert sugar, or liquid
glucose, high fructose glucose, either singly or in combination and with or without peel oil,
fruit essence (derived from fruit), citric acid, ascorbic acid, permitted preservatives and
permitted colouring substance. It shall contain total soluble solids not less than 10 percent.
(1) There shall be written on the label of a package containing flavoured drink the words
“flavoured drink” or the name of such flavour in uniform lettering of not less than 10 point
lettering conjoined with the words “flavoured drink”.
(2) The label of a package of a flavoured drink shall not include---
(a) any expression, pictorial representation or design that indicates, suggests, implies that
the drink consists / contains wholly or partly of fruit juice; or
(b) A pictorial representation or design of fruit or a floral design that indicates, suggests
or implies the presence of fruit or fruit juice in the flavoured drink.
(c) Flavoured drink to which a permitted fruit flavouring substance has been added shall
be labelled in uniform lettering of not less than 10 point with the name of such fruit or
fruits immediately followed by the word “flavour” or “flavoured”.
(3) Where fruit juice drink or flavoured drink is carbonated, there shall be written on the label
of a package containing such drink-----
(a) The words “carbonated fruit juice drink” or “carbonated fruit drink” or “carbonated
flavoured drink” as the case may be.
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(b) The words “carbonated (here state the name of the fruit) juice drink” or “carbonated
(here state the name of the fruit) drink” or carbonated (here state the name of the
flavour) flavoured drink”, as the case may be.
12.7.227 “Flavoured Syrup, Synthetic Syrup”, means the product composed of potable water
and permitted flavouring substance with sugar, dextrose, invert sugar, liquid glucose either
singly or in combination.
It shall be clear, transparent, free from scum, residue or suspended particles, extraneous
matter, objectionable taste, artificial sweetening agent and crystallization. It may contain
permitted colouring matter and permitted preservatives. It shall conform to the following
standards: -
Total soluble solids Not less than 65 per cent.
(1) There shall be written on the label of a package containing flavoured syrup, synthetic
syrup, flavoured/synthetic sharbat the words “flavoured syrup” or “synthetic syrup” or
“flavoured/synthetic sharbat” or the name of such flavour in uniform lettering conjoined with
the words “flavoured syrup” or “synthetic syrup” or “flavoured/synthetic sharbat” as the case
may be.
(2) The label of a package of flavoured, synthetic syrup or flavoured/synthetic sharbat shall
not include: -
(a) Any expression, pictorial or design that indicates or suggests or implies that the syrup
consists wholly or partly of extracts of fruit or other plant substance; or
(b) A pictorial representation or design of fruit or a floral design that indicates or suggests
or implies the presence of fruit or extract of fruit or other plant substance in the syrup.
12.7.228 “Jam”, means the product obtained by processing single or mixed fresh fruit, fruit
pulp, canned fruit or dried fruit with potable water, sugar, dextrose, invert sugar or liquid
glucose, either singly or in combination by boiling to a suitable consistency and with or
without citric, malic, ascorbic acids, permitted preservatives and permitted colours and pectin
in the form of fruit juice or pulp or powder. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Soluble solids m/m. Not less than 68.5 percent.
(b) Fruit content, except in the case
of strawberry and Raspberry jams. Not less than 49 percent.
(c) Fruit content in the case of strawberry/

raspberry jams. Not less than 25 percent.
12.7.229 “Fruit Jelly”, means the product of gelatinous consistency prepared by boiling
strained fruit juice with sugar, and having the flavour of the named fruit. It shall be free from
burnt or other objectionable flavours, crystallisation, fermentation and mould growth. Jelly
marmalade shall be clear jelly in which are suspended slices of peel or fruit. It shall conform to
the standards shown in 12.7.229 (jam).
12.7.230 “Marmalade”, means the product made from any combination of peel, pulp, and
juice of the named citrus fruit by boiling with water, sugar, dextrose, invert sugar or liquid
glucose, high fructose glucose, either singly or in combination, to a suitable consistency and
with or without an acid ingredient in an amount that reasonably compensates for any
deficiency in the natural acidity of the fruit used in its preparation, consisting of citric, malic,
tartaric or ascorbic acid, lemon or lime juice and cider vinegar. It shall conform to the
(a) Soluble solids m/m Not less than 65 percent.
(b) Fruit content of the named fruit. Not less than 45 percent.
(c) Preservative as sulphurdioxide. Not more than 40 parts per million
in the case of marmalade packed
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in glass or china ware containers only
12.7.231 “Fruit Chutney” means a product prepared from clean, sound, wholesome fruit or
vegetable either singly or in combination, with spices, salt, sugar, onion, garlic and vinegar
with or without nuts. It may contain caramel as colouring substance. It shall not contain any
synthetic colouring matter. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Total Soluble solids m/m Not less than 50 percent.
(b) Acidity calculated as acetic acid. Not less than 0.75cent and
Not more than 2.0 percent.
(c) Total ash. Not more than 5.0 percent.
The minimum percentage of fruit in the final product shall not be less than 40.
There shall be written on the label of a package containing chutney the word “chutney” and
this word may be preceded in uniform lettering with the name of the fruit or vegetable,
provided that the fruit or vegetable so named is present in the chutney in any proportion of not
less than 50 per cent of the total fruit or vegetable so present.
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Vegetable and Vegetable Products
12.7.232 “Vegetable” shall be the clean, wholesome, sound edible part of plant commonly
used for food.
12.7.233 “Fresh Vegetable” shall be vegetable that is not dehydrated, dried, canned or frozen
and shall be without shrivelled or discoloured.
12.7.234 “Dried or Dehydrated Vegetable” shall be the raw edible part of vegetable,
dehydrated under natural or artificially induced condition. It shall not contain more than 8 per
cent of water and may contain permitted preservative.
12.7.235 “Frozen Vegetable” shall be the fresh vegetable that is maintained in a frozen
wholesome condition for one continuous period at a temperature below minus 18°C and has
not been thawed before sale.
12.7.236 Vegetable Product means any food prepared from vegetable and includes food for
which a standard is prescribed but does not include edible vegetable oil and edible vegetable
fat.
12.7.237 Tomato Paste or Tomato Puree means the product made by evaporating a portion
of the water from clean, sound, ripe tomatoes. It shall be packed in hermetically sealed
packages and processed by heat to prevent spoilage. It shall be free from seeds, skin and other
coarse or hard substances and other foreign substances, added colouring matter. It may contain
salt, spices and condiments, citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid and L-ascorbic acid, vinegar,
and permitted preservatives.
The product shall show no sign of fermentation when incubated at 37°C for seven days.
Tomato puree shall contain not less than 9 per cent of soluble salt free solids whereas Tomato
paste shall contain not less than 25 per cent of soluble salt free solids.
12.7.238 “Vegetable Juice” means the liquid product of one or more kinds of vegetables and
shall not include fruit juices.
(a) Where vegetable juice contains sugar or salt, there shall be written on the label of a
package containing such food, in not less than 4 point lettering, the words “contains (state the
percentage) % added sugar, or “contains (state the percentage) % added salt”, as the case may
be.
(b) Every package of concentrated vegetable juice or vegetable juice concentrate shall be
labelled with a direction for its use.
The word “concentrate” or “concentrated” shall not appear on a package containing
concentrated
vegetable juice unless it is conjoined in uniform lettering of not less than 10 point with
the
words “vegetable juice”.
12.7.239 “Tomato Juice” means the product obtained by squeezing the wholesome tomatoes
(Licopersicon esculentum) with or without the addition (of 0.5 per cent) salt and with or
without the addition of water, and with or without homogenisation prior to its canning or
bottling and sterilisation. The juice shall be obtained from whole ripe tomatoes from which all
stems and objectionable portions have been removed. It shall be free from added colouring
matter. It shall contain not less than 5 per cent of soluble salt free solids. It shall conform to the
(a) Mold count. Not more than 50 percent of the field
examined.
(b) Yeast and Spores. Not more than 125 per 1/60 cubic millimeter.
(c) Bacteria. Not more than 100 million/ c.c
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12.7.240 “Bottled or Canned Vegetables” means the food prepared from clean, wholesome,
fresh vegetables of good characteristic colour and flavour, free from pods, stalks, detached
skin, blemishes and extraneous matter, woody fibre, roots, with or without spices and
condiments. It shall not contain any preservatives or colours except in the case of peas, beans
and spinach. It shall be free from all kinds of spoilage and shall be in hermetically sealed
containers. It shall conform to the following standards: -
Drained weight of vegetable. Not less than 50 percent of the net weight.
(a) Strength of packing brine. Not less than 1.25 percent and
not more than 2.5 percent.
(b) Fill of containers. Head space not more than 10 percent
of the inside height of the can or bottle.
(i) Where canned vegetable contains at least 50 per cent of vegetable mixed with
other food, there shall be written on the label of a package containing such food the
words “vegetable with (state the name of the other food)” or “(state the name of the
vegetable) with (state the name of the other food)”.
(ii) Where canned vegetable contains two or more kinds of vegetables, there shall
be written on the label of a package containing such food, not less than 10 point
lettering, the words “mixed vegetable”, immediately followed, in not less than 4
point lettering, by the names of vegetables, or the word “mixed (state the names of
the vegetables)”, as the case may be.
12.7.241 “Soup” shall be the liquid product composed of halal healthy animal meat, fish,
vegetable, cereal or any combination of these and may contain salt or any other food. It shall
contain not less than 6 per cent of meat or fish, where soup has been prepared from meat or
fish as the case may be. It shall be free from added colouring matter and artificial flavour.It
shall conform to the following standards:
Protein (In the case of meat or fish soup) Not les than 1.3 percent
12.7.242 “Soup Stock” shall be composed of any of the ingredients of soup in liquid, dry or
compacted form. It may contain permitted flavouring substance, permitted flavour enhancer
and permitted food conditioner. It shall be free from added colouring matter. Every package
containing soup stock shall be labelled with a direction for its use.
12.7.243 “Salad Dressing” means the emulsified semi-solid food prepared from edible
vegetable oil, whole egg, egg yolk, vinegar or citric fruit juice or both, any spice (except
saffron or turmeric) or natural flavouring, provided it does not impart to the salad dressing a
colouring simulating the colour imparted by egg yolk. It shall conform to the following
standards: -
(a) Edible vegetable oil Not less than 30 per cent
(b) Egg yolk solids. Not less than 1.35 per cent.
(c) Acidity (as acetic acid/citric acid) Not less than 2.5 per cent.
(d) pH Not more than 3.8
In the case of French Dressing:
Edible vegetable oil. Not less than 35 per cent.
12.7.244 “Mayonnaise” means the emulsified semi-solid food prepared from edible vegetable
oil, egg yolk, acidifying ingredients or citrus fruit juice or both, any spice (except saffron or
turmeric) or natural flavouring, provided it does not impart to the mayonnaise a colour
simulating the colour imparted by egg yolk. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Edible vegetable oil. Not less than 65 percent
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(b) Egg yolk solids. Not less than 1.35 percent.
(c) Acidity (as acetic acid/citric acid) Not less than 2.5 percent.
(d) pH Not more than 3.8
12.7.245 “Nut” means the clean and sound, edible seeds, kernels and other similar parts of
plants that are not classified as cereals, vegetables, fruits or spices and shall include coconut.
Nut may have their outer integument. Nut may contain added salt, edible fat or edible oil and
may be roasted. It shall be free from moulds and insect infestation.
12.7.246 “Desiccated Coconut” means the dried and shredded kernel of the fruit of Cocos
nucifera. It shall contain not less than 50 per cent of coconut oil and not more than 3 per cent of
water.
12.7.247 “Peanut Butter” means the product obtained by grinding clean, sound, wholesome,
roasted peanut kernels that have been decorticated. It may contain sugar, dextrose, invert sugar
or liquid glucose, either singly or in combination. It shall contain not less than 85 per cent of
peanut and not less than 20 per cent of protein. It shall contain not more than 55 per cent of
edible fat and edible oil and not more than 3 per cent of water. It shall comply with the
microbiological standard prescribed in these rules.
12.7.248 “Fruit and Vegetable Preserve (Morabba)”. The preserve shall be prepared from
single or mixed fruits or vegetables. The fruit or vegetable used shall be mature, fresh, sound
and clean. The product shall contain no artificial sweetening agent, colouring or flavouring
matters, and no preservatives except benzoic acid or sorbic acid to the extent of 40 p.p.m. The
fruit shall retain its form and shall be impregnated with syrup without shrinkage of the
individual pieces. It shall have flavour of the original fruit or vegetable and shall be free from
burnt or other objectionable flavours, crystallization and mould growth. The total soluble solids
in the covering syrup shall be not less than 65 per cent and the fruit or vegetable in the final
product shall be not less than 50 per cent.
12.7.249 “Vinegar or Sirka” means a liquid derived from alcoholic and acetous fermentation
of any suitable medium such as fruits, malt, molasses, sugarcane juice, etc. It shall be pleasant
in taste and flavour and shall not contain.
(i) Any mineral acid
(ii) Lead, copper or arsenic in excess of the permitted tolerance.
(iii) Any foreign substances or colouring matters except those permitted.
(iv) Any added acetic acid.
It shall conform to the following standards: --
(a) Acetic acid per 100 ml Not less than 3.75 grams
(b) Total solids per 100 ml Not less than 2 grams.
(c) Ash per 100 ml Not less than 0.1 grams
Vinegar, prepared from malt, shall contain in addition to the above constituents, not less than
0.05 grams of phosphorus pentaoxide and 0.04 grams of nitrogen per 100ml.
12.7.250 “Synthetic Vinegar” means the product prepared from acetic acid. It shall contain
not less than 3.75 grams of acetic acid per 100 ml. It shall not contain Lead, Copper, arsenic in
excess of permitted tolerance. It shall not contain any added colouring matter, any mineral acid
and shall be colourless. It shall be distinctly labelled as “synthetic” in letters not smaller than
the brand or trade name or designation and shall state on the label “prepared from acetic acid”.
12.7.251 “Pickle” means the preparation made from sound, wholesome, clean, raw or
sufficiently mature fruits or vegetables or a combination of both, free from insect damage or
fungus attack, preserved in salt, acid, sugar or any combination of these three. The pickle may
contain onion, garlic, sugar, jaggery, edible oils, spices, spice extract or oil or turmeric, pepper,
chillies, fenugreek, mustard seed or powder, vegetable ingredients, asafoetida, bengal gram,
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lime juice, lemon juice, green chillies, vinegar or acetic acid, citric acid, dry fruit including
resins and fruit nuts.
Combination on pickles may be:
(i) “Pickles in citrus juice or brine” The percentage of salt in covering liquid shall
not be less than 10 per cent when salt is used as major preserving agent. When
packed in cirtrus juice, acidity of the covering liquid shall be not less than 1.2 per
cent calculated as citric acid. Soluble calcium salt and permitted preservatives may
be used in such type of pickles. Pickles shall be free from added salts of copper,
alum and mineral acids.
(ii) “Pickles in oil” The fruit or vegetable in the final product shall be not less than 70
per cent. The pickle shall be dipped with oil. The oil used shall be clear, clean and
free from rancidity and not less than 15per cent It shall be free from copper, alum,
mineral acid or preservative. The acidity expressed as acetic acid shall not be more
than 2.0 per cent. It may contain rapeseed (rai), ajwain, saunf, and black pepper and
like spices, etc.
(iii) Pickles in vinegar: Pickles in vinegar mean the preparation from sound,
wholesome clean, raw or sufficiently matured fruits or vegetables, free from insect
damage or fungus attack, which have been cured in brine or dry salt or salted and
dried stack with or without natural fermentation. It shall contain vinegar or acetic
acid and the percentage of acid in the fluid portion shall not be less than 2 per cent
calculated as acetic acid. It may contain sugar, whole or ground or semi-ground
spices, dried fruits, green and red chillies, ginger etc. Dry fruit, citric acid may also
be added in such type of pickles. The drained weight of the product shall not be less
than 70 per cent. The pickles shall be free from copper, mineral acid, alum, added
colouring matter or preservative and shall show no sign of fermentation. The
product shall be reasonably free from sediments.
12.7.252 “Sauce” shall be the product derived from any suitable kind and variety of fruit and
vegetable which are wholesome and shall be practically free from insect or fungal attack or
blemish affecting the quality of the fruit or vegetable. The only substances that may be added
are fruit, vegetable, their pulp, juice, dried fruit, sugar, spices, salt, vingar, acetic acid, citric
acid, malic acid, onion, garlic, flavouring material and permitted preservatives. It shall be free
from colouring matter and edible starches.
12.7.253 “Soyabean Sauce” shall be the product derived from any suitable variety of sound
and wholesome soyabean free from insect or fungal or any other blemish affecting the quality
of soyabean. The only substance that may be added are spices, salt, sugar, vinegar, acetic acid,
onion, garlic, wheat molasses and permitted preservatives. It shall not contain any other fruit or
vegetable substance. It shall show no sign of fermentation when incubated at 28-30°C and
37°C for three days. It shall be free from starch and any added colouring matter except
caramel.
(a) Total soluble solids. Not less than 25 per cent
(b) Acidity (as acetic acid) Not less than 0.6 per cent.
(c) Mould count. Not more than 40 per cent
Of the fields examined.
(d) Yeast spores. Not more than 125 per 1/60 cm m
(e) Bacterial count. Not more than 100 million Per c.c.
12.7.254 “Spices Based Sauce” like chillies sauce shall be the product derived from any
suitable variety of spices or condiments, singly or in combination. Such spices shall be
wholesome and practically free from fungal or insect attack. The only substance that may be
added are, spices-fresh or dried, vinegar, acetic acid, citric acid, fumaric acid, onion, garlic,
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flavouring agents, permitted preservatives, permitted stabilizers and emulsifiers. It shall be free
from edible starches and added colouring matter except caramel. It may also contain small
quantities of vegetable, fruit pulp or juice. It shall conform to the following standards.
(a) Total soluble solids. Not less than 15 per cent.
(b) Acidity (as acetic acid) Not less than 1 per cent.
12.7.255 “Tomato Sauce” or Tomato Ketchup or Tomato Catsup or Tomato Relish or any
other expression conveying the meaning that the product so designated is a form of a tomato
sauce, means the product derived from sound, fresh and fully ripe and red tomatoes free from
insect or fungal attack, with or without sugar, salt vinegar, acetic acid, onions, spices or
condiments, citric acid, ascorbic acid and permitted preservatives and shall also be free from
added colouring matter, edible starches, skins, seeds, stems. The product shall show no sign of
fermentation when incubated at 37°C for seven days and the Howard mould count shall not
exceed 50 per cent of the total field examined. It shall conform to the following standard: -
(a) Total soluble solids. Not less than 25 percent.
(b) Acidity (as acetic acid) Not less than 1.2 percent.
(c) It shall be free from fruit or vegetables other than tomatoes and shall contain not less
than 8 percent of tomato solids derived from tomatoes.
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12.10. Miscellaneous Articles
12.10.290 “Salt, Common Salt, Edible Common Salt, Namak”, means a crystallized solid,
white or pale, pink in colour free from visible contamination with clay, grit and other
extraneous impurities. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Matter insoluble in water w/w. Not more than 0.5 percent
(b) Matter soluble in water
other than sodium Chloride w/w Not more other than 3.0
percent.
(c) Sodium Chloride w/w Not less than 98 percent.
“Iodised Salt” means a crystallized solid, white in colour free from visible contamination with
clay, grit and other extraneous impurities. The following requirements shall be fulfilled: -
(a) 95 percent shall pass a 36-mesh sieve and 90 percent shall be retained on a 60-mesh
sieve.
(b) The salt shall be white and 10 grams of salt in 100ml of water shall give a colourless
solution, having a neutral reaction.
(c) For iodization of salt potassium iodide, potassium iodate and Calcium iodate shall be
added and shall contain a stabilizer consisting of 0.1 percent sodium thiosulphate
(Na2S2O3) or other stabilizing agents, which are equally affective on preventing the
loss of iodine.
(d) The table salt iodized or otherwise shall comply with the following chemical
analysis
(i) Moisture Not more than 0.2 percent
(ii) Chloride as (NaCl) Not less than 98.0 percent
(iii) Matter insoluble in water Not more than 0.25 percent
(iv) Iodine content at:
(a) Manufactures’level Not more than 30 p.p.m
(on dry weight basis)
(b) Distribution channel
including retail level. Not less than 15 p.p.m
(v) Calcium (as ca) Not more than 0.15 percent
(vi) Magnesium (as Mg) Not more than 1.0 percent
(vii) Sulphate (as SO4) Not more than 1.0 percent
(viii) Carbonate (as CO3) Not more than 0.20 percent
(ix) Nitrate Absent
(x) Other water soluble salts. Not more than 1.0 percent
(xi) Copper Not more than 1.5 p.p.m
(xii) Lead. Not more than 1.5 p.p.m
(xiii) Arsenic (as As2O3) Not more than 0.5 p.p.m
f) The label on the package shall specify the license number of the manufacturer, date of
manufacture and the caution to store the salt in covered container in a cool dry place
after opening the package.
“Meetha Soda or Soda Bicarb” means the white or crystalline powder free from visible
contamination with clay, grit and other extraneous impurities and having a saline taste. It shall
(a) Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) 99 to 101 percent
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(b) Ash insoluble in Hydrochloric acid. Not more than 0.5 percent
(c) Water insoluble residue (Dried at 1000C) Not more than 25 percent
“Katha or Catechu (edible), Catechu nigrum” means the dried aqueous extract prepared
from the heartwood of Acacia Catechu, free from infestation, sand, earth or other dirt, and shall
(a) Test for identity To 5 ml of a 1 percent solution in
water
add 1 ml of a 0.1 percent solution of ferric ammonium sulphate in water a dark green
colour is produced. Make slightly alkaline with sodium hydroxide solution, the colour
changes to purple.
(b) Alcohol (90 Percent) Soluble extract. Not less than 60 percent.
(c) Ash Not more than 6.0 percent
(d) Loss on drying at 1000C. Not more than 15 percent.
(e) Ash insoluble in HCl Not more than 0.5 percent;
(f) Water insoluble residue (dried at 1000C) Not more than 25 percent
(g) Alcohol insoluble residue (dried at 1000C) Not more than 30 percent by weight.
“Edible Gelatine”means the clean, wholesome protein obtained by extraction from
collagenous material (skin, ligaments and bones) of healthy slaughtered halal animals. It shall
be colourless, transparent, free from objectionable taste, and offensive odour, when dissolved
in a warm 5 percent aqueous solution. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture Not more than 15 percent
(b) Ash, in the air dried Product Not more than 3.25 percent
(c) Arsenic, lead, copper, zinc Not more than the permitted
tolerances.
(d) Sulphur dioxide. Not more than 1000 ppm
Gelatine meant for human consumption shall be labeled as “Gelatine Food Grade”
“Silver leaf (Chandi Ka Worq)” shall be in the form of sheets, free from creases and folds
and shall contain not less than 99.9 percent of silver.
“Groundnut Kernel (deshelled)”for direct human consumption commonly known as
moongphali are obtained from the plant Arachis Hypogols. It shall be free from extraneous
matter such as stones, dirt, clay etc. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(a) Moisture. Not more than 7.0 percent
(b) Damaged Kernel including Not more than 5.0 percent
Slightly damaged kernel
(c) Aflatoxin content Not more than 30 parts per billion.
“Ispaghul Husk” means the epidermis and the collaspid adjacent layers removed from the
dried ripe seeds of plantago Orata. It shall be free from dust, dirt, and any other extraneous
matter including starch. It shall conform to the following standards: -
(a) Moisture Not more than 12percent
(b) Ash. Not more than 4.5 percent.
“Pan Masala” means the food generally taken as such or in conjunction with pan. It may
contain ‘Betelnut, lime, coconut, catechu, saffron, cardamom, dry fruits, mulethi and other
aromatic herbs and spices, sugar, glycerine, glucose, permitted natural colour, menthol and non
prohibited flavours. It shall be free from added synthetic colour, artificial sweetener and any
other ingredients injurious to health. It shall conform to the following standards:-
(a) Total ash (on dry basis) Not more than 8.0 percent
(b) Ash insoluble in dilute HCl. Not more than 0.5 percent.
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“Artificial Sweetening agent:
(a) Saccharin, (2 –Sulphobenzoic Imide)
It shall contain not less than 99 percent saccharin on a water free basis.
(b) Sodium saccharin (sodium salt of 2-sulphobenzoic Imide)
It shall contain not less than 99 percent and not more than 101 percent of
anhydrous sodium saccharin on a water free basis.
Saccharin and sodium salt of saccharin shall be soluble at 20 0C in 1.5 parts water and
50 percent of alcohol (95 percent) and shall contain not more than 0.1 ppm of Arsenic
and 0.5 ppm of lead. The melting point of saccharin shall be between 2260C to 2300C.
The loss on dry at 1050C shall not be less than 12.0 percent and not more than 16
percent.
The material shall satisfy the tests of identification and shall conform to the limit
tests free from acids or alkali, ammonium compounds and parasulpa moylbenzoate.
(c) Aspertame (Aspartyl Phenyl Alamine Methyl Ester C12 H18 N2 O5) shall be material,
which is slightly soluble in water and methanol. It shall contain not less than 98
percent and not more than 102 percent of Aspertame on dried basis. It shall contain
not more than 0.1 ppm of Arsenic and 0.5ppm of lead. The loss on dry of the material
at 1050C for 4 hours shall not be more than 4.3 percent. The sulphated ash shall not
be more than 0.2 percent. It shall contain more than 1 percent of diketo peperzine.
(d) Acesulfame Potassium: It shall contain not less than 99 percent and not more than
101 percent of acesulfame potassium on water free basis. Maximum permitted
portion of Acesulfame Potassium to low energy soft drink shall be not more than 600
mg /Kg.
“Flavouring Essences or Extracts”
(a) Almond essence, almond extract or almond flavour shall contain not less than
1percent by volume the hydrocyanic acid free volatile oil obtained from the kernels
of the bitter almond.
(b) Ginger essence, ginger extract or ginger flavour shall contain in 100ml the alcohol-
soluble matter from not less than 20g of ginger.
(c) Lemon essence, lemon extract or lemon flavour shall be prepared from natural or
terpeneless oil of lemon or from lemon peel and shall contain not less than 0.2percent
citral derived from oil of lemon.
(d) Lemon oil or oil of lemon shall be the volatile oil obtained from the fresh peel of the
lemon (Citrus limonum, L.) and shall have—
(i) A specific gravity at 15.5 0C of not less than 0.854 and not more than 0.862;
(ii) An optical rotation at 20 0C of not less than +56 degrees and not more than
+65
degrees;
(iii) A refractive index at 25 0C of not less than 1.470 and not more than 1.480; and
(iv) Not less than 3.5 percent of aldehydes calculated as citral.
(e) Orange essence, orange extract or orange flavour shall be prepared from sweet
orange peel, oil of sweet orange or terpeneless oil of sweet orange and shall
correspond in flavouring strength to an alcoholic solution containing 5 percent by
volume of oil of sweet orange, the volatile oil obtained from the fresh peel of Citrus
aurantium L. that shall have an optical rotation, at 25 0C, of not less than +95 degrees
using a tube 100mm in length.
(f) Peppermint essence, peppermint extract or peppermint flavour shall be prepared from
peppermint or oil of peppermint obtained from the leaves and flowering tops of
Mentha piperita L. or of Mentha arvensis De. C. , var. piperascens Holmes, and shall
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correspond in flavouring strength to an alcoholic solution of not less than 3 percent
by volume of oil of peppermint, containing not less than 50percent free and
combined menthol.
(g) Rose essence, rose extract or rose flavour shall contain not less than 0.4 percent by
volume attar of rose, the volatile oil obtained from the petals of Rosa damascena
Mill, R. centifolia L. or R. moschata Herrm.
(h) Vanilla essence, vanilla extract or vanilla flavour shall be prepared from the vanilla
bean, the dried, cured fruit of Vanilla planifolia, Andrews. It shall yield a lead
number of not less than 0.55 as determined by Wichman’s method and shall contain
not less than 0.1 percent vanillin. It shall not contain any foreign substance except
sugar and shall not contain less than 2.1g total solids other than sugar in 100ml.
(i) Flavouring essence shall comply with rule 7.
“Canned food for infants and Children” (1) Canned food for infants and children shall be
any wholesome food or mixtures of wholesome food that is sold as suitable for feeding to
infants or specifically suitable for feeding to children.
(2) For the purposes of these rules, canned food for infants and children does not include
cereal-based food for infants and children or infant formula.
(3) Canned food for infants and children in ready-to-eat form—
(a) Shall be processed by heat before or after being packed in a hermetically sealed can,
jar or other container so as to prevent spoilage;
(b) Shall be homogenous or comminuted in the following forms:
(i) Strained food of a fairly uniform, small particle size which does not require
chewing before being swallowed; or
(ii) Non-strained food that ordinarily contain particles of a size to encourage
chewing by infants and children; and
(c) May contain sodium and the total sodium content of the product shall not exceed
1g/Kg calculated on the ready-to-eat basis in accordance with the direction for use.
(4) Canned food for infants and children dry or concentrated form—
(a) Shall be processed by physical means and packed in a hermetically sealed can, jar or
other container so as to prevent spoilage;
(b) Shall, after preparation in accordance with the direction on the label, have the
consistency of strained or non-strained food as specified in paragraph (B) of (3); and
(c) May contain sodium and the total sodium content of the product shall not exceed
1g/Kg calculated on the ready-to-eat basis in accordance with the direction for use.
(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (c) of (3) and paragraph (c) of (4), the addition of salt to fruit
product and dessert product based on fruit shall be prohibited.
(6) Canned food for infants and children shall contain the nutrient specified in column (1) of
Table I given below in amounts of not less than the amount specified in column ( 2 ) and not
more than the amount, where prescribed, specified in column ( 3 ) of that Table opposite and in
relation to that food.
(7) Canned food for infants and children may contain the food additives specified in column
(1) of the Table II given below in proportions not greater than the maximum permitted
proportion specified opposite thereto in column (2 ) of the said Table.
(8) Canned food for infants and children or the ingredients used in making the product shall
not have been treated by ionizing radiation.
(9) Where canned food is claimed to be canned food for infants and children, there shall be
written on the label of a package of such food, in not less than 10 point lettering, the word
“STRAINED” or “NON-STRAINED”, as the case may be, immediately followed by the name
of the food. No other word or words shall appear on the same line.
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(10) There shall be written on the label of a package containing canned food for infants and
children—
(a) In not less than 10 point lettering, the words “NOT TO BE GIVEN TO INFANTS
BELOW 4 MONTH OF AGE”;
(b) In not less than 4 point lettering—
The amount of energy, express in kilocalorie (Kcal) or Kilojoule (Kj) or
both and the amount of protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamin and
mineral content per 100gram of the food as sold and as specified
quantity of the food as suggested for consumption;
(c) The direction for the preparation and use of the food and instruction on its storage
before and after the package has been opened; and
(d) A statement that canned food for infants and children shall not be fed through bottle or
any other word of similar meaning.
(11) The particulars that are required by paragraph (c) of (10) may be written in the
accompanying leaflet.
TABLE I
NUTRIENT LEVELS FOR CANNED FOOD FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN
1 2 3
Nutrient. Not less than amount. Not more than amount.
Vitamin A (expressed as retinal) 255 I.U 500 I.U.
Vitamin D 40 I.U 80 I.U.
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) 25 µg Not prescribed
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 60 µg Not prescribed
Vitamin B6 35 µg Not prescribed
Vitamin B12 0.15 µg Not prescribed.
Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) 8 mg Not prescribed.
Vitamin E 0.3 I.U. Not prescribed.
Folic acid 4 µg Not prescribed.
Nicotinamide 0.8 µg Not prescribed.
Pantothenic acid 300 µg Not prescribed.
Calcium ( Ca) 50 mg Not prescribed.
Phosphorus (P) 25 mg Not prescribed.
Iron (Fe) 1 µg Not prescribed.
Iodine 5 µg Not prescribed.
NOTE:
(i) Where the maximum amount of the nutrient is not prescribed, the total daily intake of
the nutrient arising from its uses in accordance with good manufacturing practice, does not
present a hazard to health.
(ii) The Ca:P ratio shall be not less than 1.2 and not more than 2.0.
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Table II
1 2
Food additive. Maximum level in 100g of
The ready – to- eat product.
1. Emulsifiers.
Lecithin 0.5g
Mono and diglycerides of edible fat and edible oil 0.15g
2. Thickners:
Locust bean gum. 0.2g
Distarch phosphate acetylated distarch phosphate}
Phosphated distarch phosphate. 0.6g singly or in
combination
3. Acidulants, Alkalis And Buffers:
Sodium hydrogen carbonate Limited by good manufacturing
Sodium carbonate. Practice within the limit of

Na
Specified in (3) of
12.10.302
Potassium hydrogen carbonate. Limited by good
manufacturing
Calcium carbonate. practice.
Lactic acid. 0.2g
Citric acid and Na salt 0.5g and within the
limit for Na specified in
(3) of 12.10.302.
Acetic acid. 0.5g.
4. Antioxidants:
Tocopherol. 0.03 g/100g fat, singly
or in
combination.
L-Ascorbyl palmitate. 0.02g/100g fat.
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L-Ascorbic acid and its 0.05g/100g fat,
expressed as
Na and K salts. Ascorbic acid and
within the
Limit of Na specified
in
(3) of 12.10.302
5. Flavouring Substances
Vanillin extract. Limited by good
manufacturing
practice.
Ethyl vanillin 7mg.
Vanillin. 7mg
“Low Energy Food/ Low Calorie Food” shall be special purpose food that is particularly
suitable for persons adopting a restricted energy diet.
(a) Where any specified food is prepared in the form of Low energy food, the low energy food
so prepared shall comply with the standard for that specified food as prescribed in these rules,
except that such low energy food shall not have a total energy value exceeding those prescribed
in the Table and may contain permitted non-nutritive sweetening substance and aspartame.
(b) The low energy food of the type specified in column (1) of the Table shall not have a total
energy value exceeding those specified in relation thereto in column (2) of the said Table.
(c) There shall be written on the label of a package containing low energy food—
(i) In not less than 10 point lettering, the words “low energy food”; and
(ii) In not less than 4 point lettering—
(a) The total weights and the separate percentages of carbohydrate, protein and fat in
the package;
(b) The total energy value in the package or the total energy in each 100ml or
100gram, as the case may be.
(c) On the label of any food to which this rule applies, there shall be an indication
that a diet of low energy food requires the supervision of a physician.
TABLE
MAXIMUM TOTAL ENERGY VALUE OF LOW ENERGY FOOD.

1 2
Type of Food. Maximum Total Energy Value.
Beverage (ready for consumption) 33Kj (8Kcal) per 100ml
Marmalade, Jam, bread spread 418Kj (100Kcal) per 100g.
Table confection (ready for consumption) 58Kj (14Kcal) per 100g
All other food. 209Kj (50Kcal) per 100g.
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“Formula Dietary Food” shall be food that is described on the label of a package containing
that food as being suitable as a complete diet when consumed in accordance with the directions
contained in the label. It shall contain, in quantity stated on the label as the quantity to be
consumed in one day, not more than the amount of nutrient supplements specified Table given
below.
(a) Formula dietary food may contain permitted nutrient supplement and permitted food
conditioner.
(b) There shall be written on the label of a package containing formula dietary food—
(i) In not less than 10 point lettering, the words “formula dietary food; and
(ii) A statement of the energy yield, expressed in Kilocalorie (Kcal) or Kilojoule (Kj)
or both of that quantity of the food; and
(iii) The proportion of protein, fat and carbohydrate in the food.
TABLE
For preparation containing nutrient supplement to be sold as food, such
preparation shall not contain any of the nutrient supplement specified
in column (1) of the Table given below in excess of the amount
specified opposite thereto in column (2) of the said Table.
TABLE.
1 2
Nutrient Supplement Maximum Amount Permitted Daily.
Vitamin A 5,000 I.U.

Vitamin D 800I.U.
Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) 100mg.
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) 2.2mg.
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 3.2mg
Vitamin B12 3µg.
Folic acid. 400µg.
Pyridoxine. 4mg.
Biotin. 400µg.
Niacin 14mg.
Calcium 1.4grams
Iodine 200µg.
Iron 2.0mg.
Phosphorus. 1.4 grams.
“Meal replacement for weight Control, food/diet for weight Control (slimming or weight
reducing and similar products)
(a) Formula foods for use in weight control diets are foods which, when presented as
“ready to serve” or when prepared in conformity with the directions for use, are presented as a
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replacement for all or part of the total daily diet. It shall be prepared from protein constituents
of halal healthy animals and / or plants proved suitable for human consumption and from other
suitable ingredients to achieve the essential composition of food. This formula does not apply
to prepacked meals controlled in energy and presented in the form of conventional foods. The
product shall be free from pathogenic microorganisms, bacterial toxins, deleterious substances,
pesticide residues, antibiotic residues and residues of hormones (estrogen).
(b) The formula shall provide not less than 800Kcal (3350Kj) and not more than 1200 Kcal
(5020Kj) as a replacement for all meals of daily diet; and shall provide not less than 200
Kcal(835Kj) and not more than 400Kcal(1670Kj) per meal if formula presented as a
replacement for one or more meals of the daily diet.
(c) The total amount of protein shall not exceed 125g per day. A minimum of 25 percent
and a maximum of 50 percent of the energy available from the food when ready to serve, shall
be derived from its protein contents. The protein added shall be of egg or milk protein. L-forms
of amino acids may be added to improve protein quality.
(d) Energy available from the fat shall be less than 30 percent including not less than 3
percent of the energy available from linoleic acid.
The product shall contain not less than the amount of vitamins and minerals in the daily intake
as given below.
Vitamin A. …….600µg retinal

equivalents.
Vitamin B1(Thiamine) …….0.8mg
Vitamin B2.(Riboflavin) …….1.2mg
Vitamin B6 ……..2mg.
Vitamin B12 ……..1 µg
Vitamin C …….30mg.
Vitamin D …….2.5 µg.
Vitamin E …….10mg.
Niacin. …….11mg.
Folate. …….200 µg
Calcium. …….500mg.
Phosphorus. …….500mg.
Iron. …….16mg.
Iodine. ……..140 µg
Magnesium. …….350mg
Copper. …….1.5mg.
Zinc. ……. 6mg.
Potassium. ……. 1.6grams
Sodium. …….1.0gram.
(e) For a formula food represented as a replacement for a single meal, the amount of
vitamins and minerals shall be reduced below the amounts given above to provide a minimum
of 33 percent or 25 percent of these amounts, depending on whether the recommended number
of serving per day is 3 or 4 respectively.
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(f) The nutritive value shall be declared on the labels per 100grams or 100ml of food as
sold and where appropriate, per specified quantity of the food as suggested for consumption.
The information regarding per serving only as quantified on the label or per portion may also
be given on the label provided that the number of servings or portions contained in the package
is stated.
(i) If the direction for use indicates that the food should be combined with other
ingredient(s), the nutritive value of the final combination may be provided on the label
in addition to the declaration already given.
(ii) Any special condition for the storage of food shall be declared on the label if the
validity of the day depends thereon. Storage instructions of the opened packages of the
food shall be included on the label to ensure that the opened food maintained its
wholesomeness and nutritive value. A warning should be included on the label if the
food is not capable of being stored after opening or is not capable of being stored in the
container after opening.
(iii) The label or labeling shall carry a statement to the effect that the food may be
useful in weight control only as part of an energy controlled diet. In the case of products
represented as replacements of the total daily diet, the label shall contain a prominent
statement recommending that, if the food is used for more than six weeks, medical
advice should be sought.
(iv) The label shall carry statement to the effect that the food may be useful in
weight control only as part of energy controlled diet.
“ Package For Food” Except as otherwise provided in these rules, no person shall import,
manufacture, advertise for sale or sell or use or cause or permit to be used in the preparation
packaging, storage, delivery or exposure of food for sale, any package, appliance container or
vessel which yields or could yield to its contents any toxic injurious or tainting substance or
which contributes to the deterioration of the food.
(i) No person shall import, manufacture, advertise for sale or sell any package, appliance,
container or vessel made of enamel or glazed earthenware that is intended for use in the
preparation, packaging, storage, delivery or exposure of food for sale and is either capable of
imparting lead, antimony, arsenic, cadmium or any other toxic substance to any food prepared,
packed, stored, delivered or exposed in it or is not resistant to acid unless the package,
appliance, container or vessel satisfies the test described below:-
(a) TEST FOR PACKAGES, APPLIANCES, CONTAINERS AND VESSELS USED
FOR STORAGE OF FOOD.
Preparation: The surface of the ware to be tested shall be washed in water containing
detergent and rinsed with clean water. The surface to be tested shall not be handled
thereafter.
All remnants of water shall be removed from the washed ware by rinsing it with leaching
solution that comprised 4 percent of acetic acid in water v/v.
Test: The ware shall then be filled with the leaching solution at room temperature to the
maximum capacity of the ware.
The ware shall be covered to minimize contamination and shall be left at room
temperature for 24 hours.
After the period of 24 hours, the leaching solution shall be thoroughly stirred and a portion
shall be removed for analysis.
The leachate shall not contain antimony, arsenic, cadmium or lead above the following
limits, expressed in ppm.
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Sb. As Cd Pb
0.2 0.2 0.2 2.0
(b) TEST FOR PACKAGES, APPLIANCES, CONTAINERS AND VESSELS USED
FOR COOKING.
(1) Preparation.
As in (a) above.
(2) Test: The ware shall be heated to 120 0C and filled to two thirds of its effective
volume with boiling leaching solution (4 percent of acetic acid in water v/v). The
vessels shall be covered, by its own lid, if any and the leaching solution shall be kept
boiling gently for 2 hours. leaching solution shall be added periodically to ensure that
the area of contact is not diminished. The vessel shall then be left at room temperature
for 22 hours.
After 22 hours, the volume of the leaching solution shall be restored to two-third of
the effective volume of the vessel. After thorough stirring, a portion of the leaching
solution shall be removed for analysis.
The leachate shall not contain antimony, arsenic, cadmium or lead above the
following limits, expressed in ppm
Sb As Cd Pb
0.7 0.7 0.7 7.0
“Food not elsewhere standardized”
(1) Food not elsewhere standardized shall be food for which a standard has not been
otherwise expressly prescribed by these rules.
(2) Food not elsewhere standardized may contain permitted nutrient supplement,
permitted food additives.
(3) Food not elsewhere standardized shall not contain permitted non-nutritive
sweetening substance.
(4) There shall not be written on the label of a package containing food not elsewhere
standardized or in an advertisement relating to that food any word or expression that
compares a nutritional property or the ingredients of a food not elsewhere standardized
with those of another food.
(5) Food not elsewhere standardized shall not be described or presented in such
manner or by such name or pictorial or other representation or device as is suggestive
of another article of food which it is intended to be an imitation or substitute or which
it resembles.
(6) The word “food not elsewhere standardized” shall not appear on the label of any
package containing food not elsewhere standardized.
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FORM –1
(See Rule 43 )
TO __________________________
__________________________
Where (name of article of food)
_________________________________________________
intended for food which is in your possession appears to me to be unsound.Now, therefore,
under section 17(a) of the Punjab Pure Food Ordinance, 1960, I hereby direct you to keep in
your safe custody the said sealed stock subject to such orders as may be issued subsequently in
relation thereto.
INSPECTOR
Area. _________________
Place___________________
Date ___________________
Signature of addressee in token of having received the above notice______________________
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FORM 2
(See Rule 44 )
The stock of articles of food detailed below has this day been seized by me under the
provisions of section 17(3) of the Punjab Pure Food Ordinance, 1960, from the
premises of ______________________________ situated at
________________________________________
Place____________________
Date ____________________
INSPECTOR
Area_____________________
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FORM –3
(See Rule 44 )
TO __________________________
__________________________
I have this day taken from the premises of ________________________________
situated at ________________________________________________sample of the food
specified below
To have the same analysed by the Public Analyst
Details of food.
Place___________________
Date ___________________
INSPECTOR
Area. _________________
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FORM 4
(See Rule 3)
FORM OF WARRANTY
Invoice No._________________________ Place

_________________________________
From _____________________________
Date__________________________________
To,________________________________
Date of Name of qualify of article Quantity Price
I / we hereby certify that food / foods mentioned in this invoice is / are warranted to be
the same in nature, substance and quality as that demanded by the vendor.
Signature of trader / traders.
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FORM 5
[See Rule 47( 2) ]
To
The Public Analyst ___________________ Place
______________________________________
NO.
______________________________________
Date.
______________________________________
Sir,
I herewith submit the following sealed samples for analysis and report under section 18 of the
Punjab Pure Food Ordinance, 1960.
Serial Article Price Date Time Vendor’s Place of Licence Nature of
REMARKS
No. asked paid. name and collection No Preservative
(for address warranty, if any added
name) NID to sample
Card.No
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Sender ____________
Name._________________________
Address _______________________
______________________________
Specimen of seal used. ___________
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FORM 5
(Reverse)
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNMENT PUBLIC
ANALYST____________________
By post
Samples received by rail
Personally
Date of Receipt ________________
Time of Receipt ________________________
Number of seals on each sample
_________________
Condition of sample _____________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
Received and opened by __________________
And reported ___________________________
Remarks _______________________________
Government Public Analyst.
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FORM 6
[ See Rule 33(2) ]

FORM OF NOTICE UNDER SECTION 13 OF THE PUNJAB PURE
FOOD
ORDINANCE, 1960
Food Authority of ____________________________
From (a) (b)
Health Officer
To ________________________________________
________________________________________
Subject: ___SUSPECTED FOOD POISONING / COMMUNICABLE

DISEASE.
Take notice that I, _________________________________________
Health Officer of ___________________ being satisfied that the food / person
detailed below is likely to cause food poisoning / communicable disease, hereby
prohibit the use of the said food for human consumption and prohibit the supply
of milk from the dairy / source / person detailed below, until this notice
withdrawn and prohibit the removal of the said food from the premises known as
_________________________________________________________________
________________________________
1. Details of food.
2. Details of person / source.
Date this _____________________________day of

_________________________200
Signed (a) Health Office.
(b)
Food Authority
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FORM 7
[See Rule 24(3) ]

FORM OF LICENCE FOR THE LOOSE SALE OF BANASPATI
THIS LICENCE NOT TRANSFERABLE

Fee is not refundable
Licence No. ___________________________ of 200……….
The person named below is permitted to sell banaspati loose or from an open package
subject to the conditions shown below. This licence expires on the 31st December, 200….
Dated ____________________________
Signed
For and on behalf of
Food Authority.
Name of Licensee _________________________
Premises where business is carried on
________________________________________________
CONDITIONS OF THE LICENCE

The licensee shall _________________________
Display a signboard on a prominent place on his premises bearing the following

inscription in red letters on a white background.
LICNESED DEALER
FOR
RETAIL & LOOSE SALE
OF
BANASPATI
Shopkeeper’s Name.________________
Licence No. ______________________
Licence expires on _________________
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FORM 8
FORM OF LICENCE UNDER SECTION 11
THIS LICENCE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE Photo

Fee is not refundable.
No. __________________ of 200…
Licence for using for carrying on the business of _________________ pursuant to the provisions of
section 11 of the Punjab Pure Food Ordinance, 1960, Mr/Ms ______________________________
Is hereby licensed for the period from _________________________to 31st December, 200_____
To use a place for the purpose of ______________________________being the room or shop or place
measuring _____________________square feet being part of the premises No.__________
Subject to the restrictions laid down in the rules and the conditions stated below.-
(1) This licence is valid only for the premises above specified that is for the number of rooms, godowns or space
mentioned therein and as shown in the block plan attached with the licence,and if the licnesee at any time during
the period of this licence desires to use any additional room or godown or space for the purpose aforesaid, he
must obtain previous sanction from the Food Authority for doing so.
(2) If the licensee vacates or gives up the possession of the premises during the period of this licence, he shall
forthwith inform, in writing, the licensing Authority that he is about to do so.
(3) The licensee shall cause the built up portion of premises to have the following:-
(a) Floors constructed of concrete or other impervious material, smooth properly drained and drains
provided with traps clean and in good repairs.
(b) Walls and ceilings having smooth, washable light coloured surface, clean and in good repair.
(c) Doors and windows provided with effective means to prevent the access of flies and to screen the
outer air, the doors shall be self-closing.
(d) Lighting on all working surfaces shall be adequate.
(e) Ventilation sufficient to avoid smoke, off odours accumulating in structures and on equipment.
(f) Effective means for protection and contamination from insects and rodents.
(g) Toiled rooms wherever provided shall bear a sign and self-closing doors not opening into any room
used for handling or storing of food.
(h) Water supply which is easily accessible, adequate and of a safe sanitary quality.
(i) Convenient hand washing facilities with water, soap and clean towels.
(4) The licensee shall cause the open and unbuild portion of the premises and their surroundings to be kept at all
times in a clean and sanitary condition and shall not permit construction of any latrine, cesspool, cow shed, stable,
manure heap or other insanitary heap or other insanitary place within the premises which in the opinion of the
Food Authority renders it undesirable, that the premises should be used for the business aforesaid.
(5) The licensee shall not use or permit to be used any portion of the premises for dwelling or cooking purposes.
(6) The licensee shall keep and maintain a Register required by section 12 of the Ordinance in the form
prescribed in rule 32 and shall keep it at all times for inspection of the officers authorized.
(7) The licensee shall at all times adopt and cause to be maintained in good order and efficient action upon the
said premises all such appliances or means as theFood authority may from time to time require for the purpose of
minimizing danger to life and property or preventing, abating or minimizing any nuisance annoyance or
inconvenience to the neighbourhood or to the public from the use of which the premises are put.
(8) The licnesee shall provide on the premise and maintain in good repair and use metal sanitary dust bins of
approved pattern and size for the deposit of all trade refuse and sweepings and make proper arrangements for the
disposal of their contents daily.
247
FORM 9
[See Rule 47]

FORM OF DECLARATION
(Admissible as evidence under Section 25)
1. Name of the person-giving sample.
2. Name of the owner.
3. Place where sample is taken.
4. Number assigned to the sample.
5. Application nature and description of the food.
6. Quantity taken for sample.
7. Amount of money paid for sample.
8. Food purchased / imported from.
9. Brief description of advertisement, if any, on container / packages.
10. Quantity in hand.
11. Description of specimen of the seal applied.
12. If divided into three parts and if one received.
13. Remarks.
Copy received.
Signature and address of the person giving the

Sample and making declaration.
Place.
Date and time.
Signature of the Officer taking sample.
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FORM 10
FORM OF LICENCE UNDER SECTION 11

Photo
(COOKED MEAT)
THIS LICENCE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE
Fee is not refundable.
No. __________________ of 200…
Licence for using for carrying on the business of _________________
pursuant to the provisions of section 11 of the Punjab Pure Food
Ordinance, 1960, Mr/Ms. ______________________________
Is hereby licensed for the period from _________________________to 31st December, 200_____
To use a place for the purpose of ______________________________being the room or shop or place measuring
_____________________square feet being part of the premises No.__________
Subject to the restrictions laid down in the rules and the conditions stated below.-
(1) This licence is valid only for the premises above specified that is for the number of rooms, godowns or space mentioned
therein and as shown in the block plan attached with the licence,and if the licnesee at any time during the period of this licence
desires to use any additional room or godown or space for the purpose aforesaid, he must obtain previous sanction from the
Food Authority for doing so.
(2) If the licensee vacates or gives up the possession of the premises during the period of this licence, he shall forthwith
inform, in writing, the licensing Authority that he is about to do so.
(3) The licensee shall cause the built up portion of premises to have the following:-
(a) Floors constructed of concrete or other impervious material, smooth properly drained and drains provided with
traps clean and in good repairs.
(b) Walls and ceilings having smooth, washable light coloured surface, clean and in good repair.
(c) Doors and windows provided with effective means to prevent the access of flies and to screen the outer air, the
doors shall be self-closing.
(d) Lighting on all working surfaces shall be adequate.
(e) Ventilation sufficient to avoid smoke, off odours accumulating in structures and on equipment.
(f) Effective means for protection and contamination from insects and rodents.
(g) Toiled rooms wherever provided shall bear a sign and self-closing doors not opening into any room used for
handling or storing of food.
(h) Water supply which is easily accessible, adequate and of a safe sanitary quality.
(i) Convenient hand washing facilities with water, soap and clean towels.
(4) The licensee shall cause the open and unbuild portion of the premises and their surroundings to be kept at all times in a
clean and sanitary condition and shall not permit construction of any latrine, cesspool, cow shed, stable, manure heap or other
insanitary heap or other insanitary place within the premises which in the opinion of the Food Authority renders it undesirable,
that the premises should be used for the business aforesaid.
(5) The licensee shall not use or permit to be used any portion of the premises for any other business except specified in the
licence.
(6) The licnesee shall provide on the premise and maintain in good repair and use metal sanitary dust bins of approved pattern
and size for the deposit of all trade refuse and sweepings and make proper arrangements for the disposal of their contents daily.
(7) The licensee shall keep and maintain a Register required by section 12 of the Ordinance in the form prescribed in rule 32
and shall keep it at all times for inspection of the officers authorized.
(8) The licnesee shall maintain a register showing the daily consumption of meat in terms of weight and the price charged for
its sale. A copy of extract from daily account of the register shall b e submitted to the licensing authority before the expiry of
each month.
(9) The licensee shall issue to the customer a receipt or invoice giving his own name, address of licenced premises, licence
No, the name and address of the customer, the date of the issue of receipt, the quantity of meat sold, the rate at which the meat
was sold and the total amount realized from the customer and shall keep a duplicate of the same to be made available at the
time of inspection by the inspector.
(10) The licensee shall prominently display at the licensed premises the price fixed as prescribed.
(11) The licensee shall comply with any direction that may be issued by the Government or by the Licencing Authority
regulating the preparation, storage and sale of meat at licensee’s premises.
(12) If the licensee contravenes the instructions stated in this licence shall be deemed to be contravention within the meaning
of Section 11 of the Ordinance.
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FORM 11
(See Rule 26)
Nomination of Persons by a Company.
Notice is hereby given that

Mr/Miss/Mrs .________________________
NID NO. _________________________, Director/Manager of the
______________
(Name of the Company ) has been nominated by the company by a
Resolution passed at their meeting held on ________ at ______________ to
be incharge of and responsible to the said company for the conduct of the
business of the said company or _______________________
establishment/branch/unit thereof and authorized to exercise all such powers
and take all such steps as may necessary or expedient to prevent the
commission by the said company of any offence under the Ordinance, 1960.
A certified copy of the said Resolution is enclosed.
Place. _____________________. Manager/ Director/Secretary

of
Date. _____________ (Name of the Company)
Note: - Score out the portion, which is not applicable.
I accept above nomination in pursuance of Rule 26 of the Revised The

Punjab Pure Food Rules, 2007.
Place.______________________.
Date. _____________. Signature of Director

/Manager.
I hareby acknowledge receipt of the above nomination.
Place. ______________________.
Date. _____________. Signature of Food Authority.
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THE PUNJAB

PURE FOOD RULES, 2007

Rule No. Subject. Page

Rule No. Subject. Page

Appendix I to Rule 12 Turbidity test 93

12.1.02 Milk Product 94

12.1.015 Condensed milk (Evaporated) Un-sweetened. 95

12.2.46 Edible oil and fat. 106

12.7.231 Fruit chutney. 155

NO.SO__________________. In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Punjab

THE PUNJAB PURE FOOD RULES, 2007

Acidity regulator Gelling agent

Anti caking agent Glazing agent

Anti-foaming agent Humectant

Antioxidant Modified starch

Bulking agent Preservative

Colour Propellant gas

Emulsifier Raising agent

Emulsifying salts Stabiliser

Firming agent Sweetener

Flavouring agent Thickener

Common Name Indigo Carmine

Requirements for Indigo Carmine

S.NO Characteristic Requirement

Brilliant Blue F.C.F

Common Name Brilliant Blue F.C.F

Requirements for Brilliant Blue F.C.F

S.NO Characteristic Requirement

Requirements for A. F. Green

S.NO Characteristic Requirement

Requirements for Sunset Yellow, FCF

S.NO Characteristic Requirement

Requirements for Tartrazine

4. Combined ether extracts, per cent by mass, Max. 0.2

Requirements for Sunset Yellow, FCF

S.NO Characteristic Requirement

2. Loss on drying at 1350C , per cent by mass and Chlorides and

Color of the 0.1 per cent

Requirements for Ponceau 4R

S.NO Characteristic Requirement

Requirements for Erythrosine

S.NO Characteristic Requirement

Methylester of Beta apo-8, carotenic acid

Ethylester of Beta-apo-8, carotenic acid

Article of food Preservative Part per million

d) Use of preservatives in mixed foods: - In a mixture of two or more food mentioned

e) Container of food which contains preservatives not to be marked “pure”----- The

6.2 Addition of preservative in the sample for the purpose of analysis---

8.2 Use of anti-oxidants in Vitamin D Preparation:- Vitamin D preparation may contain

Instant Mixes:- Idli mix,

dosa mix, puliyogare mix,

pongal mix, gulabjamoon

Rice and Pulses based

Ready – to- Serve

Sugar based / Sugar free

Synthetic syrup for

FOOD I FOOD CONDITIONER II

Metal Article of Food Parts per

(iv) Fruit products covered under the Fruit Products 50