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Comprehensive Group Standards for Millets
FSSAI specifies comprehensive group standards for 15 types of millets.
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has specified the comprehensive group standard in the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Second Amendment Regulations, 2023.
These will be enforced from September 1.
The standardisation is part of the government’s efforts to boost the use of millets in the ongoing International Year of Millets.
Currently, individual standards for only a few millets like Sorghum (Jowar), Finger Millet (Ragi), Whole & decorticated Pearl Millet Grain (Bajra) and Amaranth are prescribed in the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011.
FSSAI has now framed a comprehensive group standard for 15 types of millets specifying 8 quality parameters –uric acid contentextraneous matter,other edible grains, maximum limits for moisture content, weevilled grains, and immature and shrivelled grains to ensure the availability of good quality millets in domestic and international markets.
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