Lok Sabha Question No. 2249 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-11
Subject: Guidelines on Health Drinks and Tonic
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2249 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11 TH DECEMBER, 2015

## GUIDELINES ON HEALTH DRINKS AND TONIC

## 2249. SHRI KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has set up any panel to formulate the regulatory guidelines for health drink products, nutrition and other direct medical formulation of health tonic;
- (b) if s o, the details and the composition thereof; and
- (c) the details of the said guidelines?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA)

- (a) & (b): Section 13 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, inter alia, provides establishing Scientific Panels on topics specified in this section. The present composit Scientific  Panel  on  Functional  Foods,  Nutraceuticals,  Dietetic  Products  and  o ther  Similar Products is annexed.
- (c) : The draft Food Safety and Standards (Food or Health Supplement, Nutraceuticals, Food fo Special  Dietary  uses,  Food  for  Special  Medical  Purpose,  Functional  Foods  and  Novel  Fo Regulations,  2015  have  been notified  in  the  Gazette  of  India  vide  Notification  No.1 -4/Nutraceutical/FSSAI - 2013 dated 30.07.2015.

## Composition  of  Scientific  Panel  on  Functional  Foods,  Nutraceuticals,  Dietetic Products and Other Similar Products

1. Dr.  V.  Prakash,  Former  Director,  CFTRI,  Distinguished  Scientist,  CSIR,  JSS Technical Institution Campus, JSS CMS-Mysore 570006.
3. Dr Anuja Agarwala,   Head, Dietician, AIIMS, New Delhi.
2. Dr. K. Madhavan Nair, Scientist, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, Jamai Osmania, Tarnaka, Hyderabad, AP-500007.
4. Dr. D. B. Anantha Narayana, Expert Member, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, 1101/927, I F Main, 2 nd Stage, Giri Nagar, Bangalore- 560085.
6. Sh. Kumar Bhatia, Chief Consultant (Post Harvest Management and Marketing), Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operation, Government of India G-3/G, MIG DDA Flats, Munirka, New Delhi-110067.
5. Dr.  Premendra  Dhar  Dwivedi , Principal  Scientist,  Food  Toxicology Division, Room # 303, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Post Box No. 80, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow-226001.
7. Dr. Bikash Chandra Ghosh., Principal Scientist, Dairy Technology Section, NDRI, Abugodi 560 030, Bangalore.
9. Dr.  A.  G.  Appu  Rao, CSIR  Scientist  Emeritus,  University  of  Mysore,  528, Anikethana Road, Kuvempunagar, Mysore.
8. Dr. Partha Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT, Roorkee 247667.
10. Dr.  Sandhya  Kulshreshtha,  Consultant,  Directorate  General  of  Health  Service, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi.
12. Dr. P. Goswami, Senior Principal Scientist, North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat- 785006.
11. Dr. Manorma Kanuri, Professor (Food and Nutrition) and Head and Programme Director  (Food  Technology),  Post  Graduate  and  Research  Centre,  Food  and Nutrition  and  Food  Technology,  Acharya  N.  G.  Ranga  Agricultural  University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad-500030.
13. Dr. Suman Kapur, Dean, Research and Consultancy, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Room No. A- 1010, Department of Biological Sciences, Jawahar Nagar, Sharmirpet, Hyderabad-500078
15. Sh.  V.D.  Sattigeri,  Former  Director,  Central  Food  Laboratory,  Central  Food Technological  Research  Laboratory,  7,  CFTRI  Layout,  5 th Main,  1 st Cross, Bogadi 2 nd stage, Mysore-570020.
14. Dr. Virender K. Batish, Emeritus Scientist, Molecular Biology Unit, Dairy Microbiology Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal- 132001.

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