India, Jan. 2 -- As many as 27 new regulations for food standards were notified by FSSAI during the year. Some of the key regulations include the ones on alcoholic beverages, food fortification, advertising and claims, packaging, residues of pesticides, tolerance limits of antibiotics and pharmacologically active substances.

Food businesses are usually provided a period of at least 6-months as transition period before new standards come into force and date of effect of standards is either 1st January or 1st July. Several of the key new food standards have come into force from 1st January, 2019.

These are -

* Standards for all pulses, whole and decorticated pearl millet grains, de-germedmaize flour and maize grit, couscous, tempe, textu...