Nutraceuticals and food supplements will no longer be proprietary foods: FSSAI

Nutraceuticals and health and dietary supplements such as fortified foods and energy drinks will no longer be considered proprietary food by India’s food regulator, according to revised rules. They will likely have to be approved as a separate category.

According to the FSSAI’s new regulations uploaded on its website, proprietary food is now defined as “...an article of food that has not been standardised under these (Food Safety and Standards) regulations, but does not include any novel food, food for special dietary use, functional food, nutraceutical, health supplement and such other articles of food which the Central Government may notify in this behalf.” The regulations also specify that “the food business operator shall be fully responsible for the safety of the proprietary food.”