The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
Chapter IV General
Provisions as to Articles of Food
19. Use of food
additive or processing aid. –
No article of food
shall contain any food additive or processing aid unless it is in accordance
with the provisions of this Act and regulations made there under.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this section, "processing aid" means
any substance or material, not including apparatus or utensils, and not
consumed as a food ingredient by itself, used in the processing of raw
materials, foods or its ingredients to fulfill a certain technological purpose
during treatment or processing and which may result in the non-intentional but
unavoidable presence of residues or derivatives in the final product.