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FSSAI notifies norms related to RTD alcobevs and country liquor
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Monday, 07 July, 2025, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The FSSAI has notified the Food Safety and Standards (Alcoholic Beverages) First Amendment Regulations, 2025, related to ‘alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages’ and ‘country liquor’.
“Alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages means, flavoured beverages having more than 0.5 and up to 15.0% of alcohol by volume, made from spirit or the mixture of spirit or any alcoholic beverage as base by adding natural or nature identical or artificial flavours and food additives permitted under the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, or a combination thereof, and fruit or vegetable juice or herbs or spices, or a combination thereof, with or without added sugar or caloric sweeteners or salt and with or without carbonation."
"In case of carbonated alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages, they shall be carbonated with carbon dioxide, which shall have a minimum of one volume of carbon dioxide and shall conform to the (prescribed) requirements,” reads the notification.
The notification further lays that ‘Country liquors or Indian liquors or spirits are alcoholic beverages obtained from distillation of fermentable carbohydrates of agricultural origin.
The regulations recognised ‘Country liquors or Indian made liquors’ including ‘Plain country liquor or Plain Indian liquor’ which is made from alcoholic distillate obtained from fermented molasses, jaggery (Gur), mash of cereals, potato, cassava, fruits, juice or sap of coconut and palm trees, mahua flowers or any other carbohydrates of agricultural origin, while the other is ‘Blended country liquor or blended Indian liquor, which is a blend of an alcoholic distillate, rectified spirit or neutral spirit.
According to the notifications, these regulations shall come into force on January 1, 2026.
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