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FSSAI asks States to initiate enforcement drives on spices in Oct
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Saturday, 20 September, 2025, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has asked State Food Safety Commissioners and Regional Directors to initiate nationwide enforcement drives on spices, whole & powder, for the month of October.
The enforcement /surveillance drive would assess the safety, quality, labelling requirements as well as identify the hotspots of adulteration and non-compliance of spices in the Indian markets.
The FSSAI has asked the State authorities to include Black Pepper Powder, Black Pepper Whole, Cardamom Powder, Cardamom Whole, Chilli Powder, Chilli Whole, Cinnamon (Dalchini) Whole, Coriander Powder, Coriander Whole, Cumin Powder, Cumin Whole, Turmeric Powder and Turmeric Whole.
“The Commissioners of Food Safety of States/UTs and the Regional Directors of FSSAI are requested to conduct the enforcement drive for spices for checking compliance with the prescribed parameters including labelling requirements in respective jurisdiction," reads a notice issued by the FSSAI in this regard.
"The inspection and sampling of spices must be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the FSS Act, Rules, and Regulations made thereunder. It may also be ensured that the enforcement drive shall be limited to manufacturing units only, in order to check the compliance at the source,” adds the notice.
The notice stated that the sample drawn during the enforcement drive must be sent to a NABL-accredited laboratory that has full scope for testing all parameters specified under the relevant Food Safety and Standards Regulations applicable to these spices.
The enforcement/ surveillance drive would be conducted across the country in the month of October against which the state authorities were also asked to submit a detailed report to the FSSAI.
“The relevant data of inspection, sampling and their outcome mandatorily to be recorded on FoSCoS / FoSCoRIS and a consolidated report detailing the samples collected and corresponding test results be shared with FSSAI by 20th November, 2025,” concludes the FSSAI notice.
A similar exercise was conducted from November 2024 to February 2025 with respect to 13 commodities/spices.
According to the FSSAI, in the surveillance non-compliance has been observed with regard to quality parameters as well as contaminants, microbial count and labelling requirements. And action was initiated wherever required.
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