By Navneet, Chief Regulatory Expert at Regbite

The Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Amendment Regulations, 2026 were notified on 24 March 2026 and come into force on 1 July 2027. That is a long runway, and I want to talk about the runway before the contents.

The most useful change is the calendar, not the clauses

FSSAI has moved toward a consistent annual labelling enforcement date of 1 July. New labelling requirements land on that date rather than scattered across the year.

If you have ever run a packaging change in India you will understand immediately why that matters. Artwork revision, regulatory review, printer lead time, minimum order quantities and running down existing stock are all slow. A labelling change commencing in mid-February means either scrapping printed stock or running non-compliant for a few weeks.

A predictable annual date lets you batch. Hold one artwork revision cycle a year, fold every pending change into it, print once. For a brand with thirty SKUs that is the difference between one print run and several.

My advice: put a standing artwork review in your calendar each January, covering everything that commences the following 1 July. That single habit will save you more money than any individual clause below.

What actually changed

  • Non-retail containers — the most substantive change. Mandatory traceability information and clear “NON-RETAIL CONTAINER” identification. If you ship bulk to a packer or contract manufacturer, this is you.
  • Small packs — the FSSAI logo may be omitted where the package surface area is 100 cm² or less. The information must still appear on the multi-unit pack. Relevant for sachets, sample sizes and single-serve sticks.
  • Infant nutrition products — no longer required to declare per-serve %RDA contribution or the number of servings per pack.
  • Minimally processed foods — now defined: foods slightly altered for preservation (cleaning, grinding, refrigeration, pasteurisation) without substantially changing nutritional content.
  • Warnings — revised requirements for pan masala and for aspartame–acesulfame sweetener combinations.

Which of these touch a supplement brand

Honestly, for most nutraceutical brands: two.

Non-retail containers, if you move bulk material between sites or send product to a contract packer. The traceability requirement is the substantive one, and it may need changes to how your bulk labels are generated, not just what they say.

Small packs, if you sell sachets or sample sizes. The 100 cm² relief is genuinely useful — it removes a real design constraint from a panel that never had room for the logo in the first place.

The infant nutrition and pan masala provisions will not apply to you unless you are in those categories. I mention them because I would rather you know what a change does not require than assume it applies and spend money on it.

Between now and July 2027

You have over a year, which is genuinely comfortable — provided someone owns the date. In my experience the risk with a long runway is not that the work is hard; it is that nobody starts, and then it is March 2027.

Regbite holds commencement dates per provision rather than per notification, so a change notified in March 2026 that commences in July 2027 sits on your dashboard under the date that actually matters to you, and the reminder arrives in time to act on it.

Status as at August 2026. General guidance, not legal advice. Confirm the operative text and commencement date on fssai.gov.in before making artwork decisions.

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