What They Are: Functional foods are regular foods enhanced with additional nutrients or bioactive compounds to provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition, like fortified cereals or probiotic yogurts.
FSSAI Regulations:
1. Approval and Registration: Functional foods also need FSSAI approval before they can be marketed. This involves submitting evidence of the food’s health benefits and detailed product information.
2. Labeling: Labels must accurately reflect the nutritional content, benefits, and any health claims, which must be scientifically supported.
3. Manufacturing Practices: They must be produced following GMP guidelines to ensure safety and high quality.
Required Testing:
1. Nutrient Analysis: Testing ensures that the functional food contains the promised amounts of added nutrients or bioactive components.
2. Health Benefit Validation: Scientific evidence is needed to prove the health benefits claimed. This might include clinical studies or another research.
3. Safety Testing: Ensures the food is free from harmful contaminants and allergens.
4. Label Accuracy: Checks that the product label is accurate and reflects the true nature of the functional benefits and ingredients.
Benefits of Regular Quality Testing.
1. Better quality of Functional Foods as per FSSAI Standards.
2. Lower Rejection Ratio and low wastage due to strict quality control at every stage.
3. More Confidence in business due to best quality of Functional Foods products.
4. High Customer Satisfaction hence building good brand image.
5. High Business Volume and Profit due to high confidence in Quality and Business.
6. Experts Guidance to improve the Quality & Process.
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