Whereas the draft of the Food Safety and Standards Alcoholic Beverages Amendment Regulations,

5395 GI/202 3 (1) रजिस्ट्री सं. डी.एल.- 33004/99 REGD. No . D. L. -33004/99 EXTRAORDINARY PART III—Section 4 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 585] NEW DELHI , TUESDAY , AUGUST 22, 2023/ SHRAVANA 31, 1945 CG-DL-E-23082023-248239 FOOD SAFETY A ND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 21st August , 2023 F. No. STD/SP -21/T(Alcohol -4).—Whereas the draft of the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Amendment Regulations, 2022 were published as required by sub -section (1) of section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), vide notification of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India number, F. No. Std/SP -21/T(Alcohol -4), dated the 17th May, 2022, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, inviting objections and suggestions from the pers ons likely to be affected thereby, before the expiry of the period of sixty days from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette containing the said notification were made available to the public; And whereas copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on the 20th May, 2022; And whereas the objections and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said draft regulations have been considered by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India; Now, therefore, in exercis e of the powers conferred by clause (v) of sub -section (2) of section 92 of the said Act, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Regulatio ns, 2018, namely: - 1. These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) First Amendment Regulations, 2023. 2. They shall come into force on 01st March 2024. 3. In the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) Regul ations, 2018, - (1) In Part 2, in regulation 2.8, in sub -regulation 2.8.1 related to Malt or grain whisky, for clause (i) the following shall be substituted, namely, - “(i) Single malt whisky is a distillate obtained from fermented mash that uses malted b arley without adding any other grain, which is distilled in pot still only and produced in a single distillery. (ia) Single grain whisky is a distillate obtained from a ferme nted mash that uses malted or unmalted grain, and produced in a single distillery . Single grain whisky shall not include single malt whisky and blended malt whisky or blended grain whisky”. (2) In Part 5, for the regulation 5.5 the following shall be substituted, namely, - “5.5 Alcoholic beverage shall not contain any nutritional info rmation on the label except energy content in kcal. Such declaration related to energy content shall be voluntary”. G. KAMALA VARDHANA RAO , Chief Executive Officer [ADVT. -III/4/Exty./36 8/2023 -24] Note. - The principal regulations were published in the Gaz ette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 vide notification number F. No. 2/SA -24/2009(1)/FSSAI, dated the 19th March, 2018 and subsequently amended vide notification numbers: 1. F. No. Stds/SP (water and Beverages)/Notification(1)/FSSAI -2019, dated t he 18th December, 2020; and 2. F. No. Std/SP -21/T(Alcohol -5), dated the 10th June, 2022. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi -110064 and Published by the Controller of Publicat ions, Delhi -110054.