Food Safety and Standards (Approval for Non-Specified Food and Food Ingredients) Regulations, 2017.

These Regulations lay down the procedure to obtain prior approval for manufacture or import of any non-specified food or food ingredient. Non-specified food means any food other than proprietary food or food ingredients, including additives, processing aids and enzymes for which standards have not been specified in any regulation made under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. Regulation 3 prohibits manufacture or import of any non-specified food or food ingredient, except with the prior approval of the Food Authority. Regulation 4 lays down the procedure for grant of such prior approval to a manufacturer or importer of non-specified food.