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FSSAI for action against sale of plant origins products as butter or ghee.
Jan 30, 2023

The FSSAI has asked state Food Safety Commissioners to check the labels of products being manufactured and sold as butter or ghee having plant origins and initiate enforcement actions against such FBOs (Food Business Operators). The food authority has issued a direction after receiving complaints about plant-based non-dairy products being sold as butter or ghee on e-commerce platforms and in markets.
 
'It is requested to immediately check the labels of such products being manufactured and/or sold under your jurisdiction including on online platforms/websites and take enforcement actions against such FBOs who are selling such plant-based products as ghee, butter etc. or making claims for vegan foods/logo without prior approval of the food authority as per the FSS Act, 2006,' reads the direction issued by the FSSAI.
 
The Commissioners were also asked to submit an action taken report by Feb 15, 2023.
 
According to FSSAI, ‘Dairy Terms’ like ‘plant-based ghee/butter, vegan ghee/butter’ etc. were being used by some food businesses and these products are available in markets and on e-commerce platforms while such products are of non-animal origin.
 
Rakesh Kumar, Director, Compliance, says, 'Such products are of non-animal origin and are usually the blend/mixtures of two or more edible oils/hydrogenated  fats and nature identical flavours etc. Further, it has also been noticed that such products are also being sold deceptively as ‘vegan-ghee’ whereas as per provisions of Food Safety and Standards (Vegan Foods) Regulations, 2022, ghee, butter etc. cannot be claimed to be vegan foods and the use of vegan food claim and vegan logo are permitted only after the prior approval of the food authority.'
 
The food authority has also clarified that the usage of dairy terms, ‘in respect of a product which is not milk, a milk product or a composite milk product, no label commercial document, publicity material or any form of point of sale presentation shall be used which claims, implies or suggests that the product milk, milk product or a composite milk product or which refers to one or more of these products’.
 
Further, the FSS Prohibition and Restriction on Sales Regulations says that ‘no person shall either by himself or by any servant or agent shall sell ghee which contains any added matter not exclusively derived from milk fat’.
    
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