2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 (hereinafter referred
to as the said regulations),-
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(x) for clause (16), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
―"16. Refined vegetable oil.-(1) Refined Vegetable Oil means any vegetable oil which is obtained by expression or solvent extraction of vegetable oil bearing materials, deacidified with alkali and/or physical refining and/or by miscella refining using permitted food grade
solvents and/or degumming using phosphoric/citric acid and /or any suitable food grade enzyme, followed by bleaching with adsorbent earth and/or activated carbon and deodourised with steam. No other chemical agent shall be used. The name of the vegetable oil from which
the refined oil has been manufactured shall be clearly specified on the label of the container. In addition to the under-mentioned standards to which refined vegetable oils shall conform to, the standards prescribed in these regulations for the specified edible oils shall also apply
except for acid value which shall be not more than 0.6. Moisture shall not exceed 0.10 per cent by weight. Trans fatty acids shall not be more than 5 % by weight. Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022. Test for argemone oil shall be negative. The refined vegetable oil shall be obtained from the vegetable oils standardized in these regulations."
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(xiv) for clause 24 relating to Blended Edible Vegetable oils,-
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(b) in sub-regulation 2.2.2,-
(i) in clause (iii), the proviso shall be omitted;
(ii) for clause (v), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
―"It shall not contain trans fatty acids more than 5 % by weight:
Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022.";
(c) in sub-regulation 2.2.3,-
(i) in clause (1),after the last paragraph, the following words and figures shall be inserted, namely:-
―"The oil shall not contain trans fatty acids more than 5 % by weight:
Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022."
(ii) in clause (2),after the last paragraph, the following words and figures shall be inserted, namely:-
―"The oil shall not contain trans fatty acids more than 5 % by weight:
Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022."
(d) in sub-regulation 2.2.5,-
(i) in clause (1), after the last paragraph, the following words and figures shall be inserted, namely:-
―"It shall not contain trans fatty acids more than 5 % by weight:
Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022."
(ii) in clause (2),for sub-clause (ii) and for the proviso, the following shall be substituted, namely:-
― "(ii) Trans fatty acids - Not more than 5 % by weight.
Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022."
(iii) in clause (3),in the paragraph beginning with the words ―The Fat content‖and ending with the words ―the total fat content‖ the following words and figures shall be inserted, namely:-
―"The Vegetable fat spread and Mixed fat spread shall not contain trans fatty acids more than 5 % by weight.
Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022."
(A) in sub-clause (iii), the proviso shall be omitted.
(B) in sub-clause (vii), for the item (b) and the proviso, the following words and figures shall be substituted, namely:-
Provided that maximum limit of trans fatty acid shall not be more than 3% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2021 and not more than 2% by weight, on and from 1st January, 2022."
