VATIS UPDATE Article

Food regulator the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has released recent notification on nutraceuticals to provide relief to health supplement manufacturers and marketers and to clear all the hurdles in the approval process. Recently, FSSAI has restricted enforcement activity against nutraceuticals and health supplement companies to only testing of products till new standards are notified.

“This move of Authority will bring a sigh of relief and take the industry forward which has succumbed to pressure of product approval for the last four years, and this decision now clears the hurdles,” said Indian Drug Manufacturers Association (IDMA). The food regulator also clarified that the products which were launched before the Food Safety and Standards Act came into force in 2011 and others for which approvals were pending as on August 19, 2015, will only be tested for quality and as of now, may not require any approval.