Punjab Pure Food

Rules-2011
Legal terms, Food additives and rules, Food packaging,
Labelling requirements
 Food Safety
• Food safety is a concern of everyone. Given that food intake is the fundamental
precondition for survival, food safety issues embrace us all the time
• Food safety simply means that what we eat, chew or drink is safe for human health
• In order to ensure that people get safe food, multidimensional approaches have to be
taken at all levels of a food chain e.g. production, storage, supply, distribution, and
consumption, etc.
• The government and citizens are two major stakeholders in any approach to food
safety
• There were four basic laws dealing with food safety:
• 1. Pure Food Ordinance, 1960
• 2. The Cantonment Pure Food Act, 1966
• 3. Pakistan Hotels and Restaurant Act, 1976
• 4. Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority Act, 1996
 Pure Food Ordinanace-1960
• ‘Local Authority’ is responsible for enforcement of the Pure Food
Ordinance, 1960. It referees to a Municipal Committee or Municipal
Corporation, a Local Council, a Town Committee or an authority, which is
declared by Government by notification in the official Gazette for the
purpose of this ordinance. Concerned citizens and citizen groups can
lobby with the relevant Local Authority for effective enforcement of the
law
 Punjab Pure Food Rules-2011
• Punjab Pure Food Rules 2007
• In exercise of the powers conferred under section 37 of the Punjab Pure
Food Ordinance 1960 (VII of 1960), in suppression of the Punjab Pure
Food Rules 2007, the Governor of the Punjab is pleased to make the
following rules:
• Punjab Pure Food Rules 2011
 Definitions
• “advertisement” Includes any notice, circular, label, wrapper, invoice or other document, and any
public announcement made orally or by means of producing or transmitting light or sound; and
“advertise” shall be construed accordingly;
• “approved” means as approved by the Government;
• “bakery” means any place wherein is carried on the production or preparation, packing, storing,
display or sale of cream, biscuits, cakes, other bakery products or confectionery;
• “bottling factory” means any place in which aerated water, soda water, mineral water, syrup or other
non-alcoholic beverage or any other food article is or are bottled by way of trade or for sale;
• “contact material” means any article or substance which is intended to come into contact with food;
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• “Dairy”: includes any farm, shed, milking-house, milk store, milk-shop, creamery or other
premises from where milk is supplied for sale, or wherein milk is kept or used for purposes of
sale or used to manufacture cream, butter, cheese, desi ghee, dried milk or condensed milk or
other milk products for sale, or in which vessels used for the sale of milk are kept;
• “Food Authority”: means Punjab Food Authority, responsible to carry out, within its
jurisdiction, the execution and enforcement of the Punjab Food Authority Act, 2011 and these
regulations;
• “Food business”: means any business in the course of which commercial operations with
respect to food or food sources are carried out;
• “Food premises”: means any premises used for the purpose of a food business
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• “Food source”: means any growing crop or live animal, bird or fish from which food is intended
to be derived whether by harvesting, slaughtering, milking, collecting eggs or otherwise;
• “Food Testing Laboratory”: means any place where the food is to be checked in accordance with
the standards set forth by the Punjab Food Authority; it is a place established by Punjab Food
Authority, notified, accredited or any laboratory handed over by the government or any other
private laboratory nominated/outsourced by the Punjab Food Authority for the purpose of analysis.
• “Homogenized milk”: means milk which has been treated in such manner as to ensure breakup of
the fat globules contained therein to such an extent that after forty-eight hours of quiescent storage,
no visible cream separation occurs in the milk;
• “Human consumption”: includes usages in the preparation of food for humans;
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• “Ingredient”: means any substance, including a food additive, used in the manufacture or
preparation of a food and present in the finished product although possibly in a modified form;
• “Label”: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate container of
any article and on the retail package of such article, unless it is easily legible through the outside
container or wrapper;
• “Labeling”: means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon an article or any
of its containers, wrappers, or accompanying such articles; “Lot”: means a definitive quantity
of a commodity produced essentially under the same conditions;
• “Milk seller”: means any person who offers for sale or sells to another any milk or milk
products for human consumption;
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• “Owner”: includes consignor, consignee, importer, agent, broker, commission agent, manufacturer or
seller's agent and any other person in possession of the food;
• “Person”: means any individual, partnership, corporation, company, firm, trustee, or association by
whatever name called;
• “Preparation”: in relation to food, includes manufacturing and any form of processing or treatment,
“preparation for sale” includes packaging, and the expression “prepare for sale” shall be construed
accordingly;
• “Processed”: in relation to any food, means having undergone any treatment resulting in a substantial
change in the original state of the food, and shall include dividing, severing, boning, mincing, skinning,
paring, peeling, grinding, cutting, cleaning, trimming, deep-freezing, freezing, chilling, milling, husking,
packing or unpacking and the expression “unprocessed” shall be construed accordingly
 Food Additive
• “Food additive” means any safe substance that is intentionally introduced into on
a food in small quantities in order to affect the food’s keeping quality, texture,
consistency, appearance, odour, taste, alkalinity, or acidity, or to serve any other
technological function in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment,
packing, packaging transport, or storage of the food, and that results or may be
reasonably expected to result directly or indirectly in the substance or any of its by
products becoming a component of, or otherwise affecting the characteristics of the
food, and includes any colouring substance, preservative, flavour, flavour
enhancer, antioxidant and food conditioner, but shall not include:
 Food Additives-Don’t include
• (a) vitamins; minerals or other nutrients in so far as they are used solely for purposes of fortifying or enriching
food or of restoring the constituents of food;
• (b) herbs or spices when used as seasoning hops;
• (c) salt;
• (d) yeast or yeast extracts;
• (e) the total products of any hydrolysis or autolysis of food proteins;
• (f) starter cultures;
• (g) malt or malt extract; (h) any substance which is present in food solely as a result of its addition to animal, bird
or fish feeding stuffs or its use in a process or treatment carried out in crop husbandry, animal husbandry,
veterinary medicine or storage (including any pesticide, fumigant, sprout depressant or veterinary medicine); and
(i) air or water.
 Food Additives-Rules
• (a) No person shall import, manufacture, advertise for sale or introduce in
to or on any food:
• (i) any food additive other than a permitted food additive; or
• (ii) any permitted food additive which does not comply with the standard
prescribed in these rules
• (iii) no food shall contain any food additive other than those specified in
this rule unless it is approved by the notification issued by the
Government
 Categories
(b) Additives used as ingredients in pre-packed foods to perform certain functions shall be declared in the labelling by
the appropriate category name of the function along with their chemical names or European community number
(E.E.C.No.) or Codex INS NO, the categories are:
• Acid Flour treatment agent Emulsifying salts
• Acidity regulator Gelling agent Stabilizer
• Anti caking agent Glazing agent Firming agent
• Anti-foaming agent Humectant Sweetener
• Antioxidant Modified starch Flavouring agent
• Bulking agent Preservative Thickener
• Colour Propellant gas Flavour enhancer
• Emulsifier Raising agent
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• (c) If an additive serves more than one function in food, the category name which
represents its principal function must be used to describe it; but, Where no category
name is available for the function performed by an additive in a food, the additive must
be declared in the list of ingredients by its specific name.
• (d) No person shall sell a food additive unless the label on the package carries:
• (i) The common name or appropriate designation and chemical name;
• (ii) The European community number (E.E.C.No.) or Codex INS No., or PSQCA
Standard No.
• (iii) The lot number of food additive.
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• The presence of an additive in food through the application of the carry
over principle is admissible in general unless otherwise specifically
prohibited in these rules or in appendix II, provided the total additive
including the carry over through the raw material or other ingredients and
it does not exceed the maximum amount so permitted
• Strictly follow the Banned ( i.e. Shellac E904(female lac bug), Carmine-
E120 (cochineal extract) colors)
Punjab Food Authority-Packaging Regulations
• Packaging Material Regulations 2018
• Ban the use of non-food grade materials from the food supply chain in a phase manner. Businesses and
industries, including paper and paperboard suppliers, printing presses and plastic manufacturers etc, have to
make adjustments in their existing processes. For this purpose, the authority will give them substantial time
• License food packaging manufacturers
• According to the new regulations, the use of old newspapers and printed paper scrap is prohibited for the
packing of food products. Instead blank paper should be used locally for food wrapping (Chappati etc)
• Use of commonly available white foam board (thermocol) plates and cups is banned (Non-biodegradable)
• Ban on Styrofoam cups and plates by Punjab Food Authority Scientific panel
 Packaging Material Regulations 2018
• The law provides following guidelines;
• 19-liter water bottles must be recycled after every 40th use.
• Only three-layer plastic bags are to be used for packaging of ghee and oil products.
• Use of single-layered styrofoam, newspapers, and crappy paper will be banned for food packaging.
• Non-absorbent ink will be used for printing on plastic and other packaging material.
• Glue used for the adhesive purpose on packaging material shall be made with only Halal animal
sources.
The authority has also proposed various penalties and punishments for violation of these regulations
 Labelling requirements
• Mode of Labelling of Pre-Packed Foods
• (1) No person shall sell by retail or display for sale by retail, any pre-packed food unless
there appears on a label a true statement which:
• (a) Shall be clearly legible and in a prominent position on the label
• (b) shall specify the name of either the packer or the labeller or the manufacturer of the
food and complete address (including location) at which such person carries on business;
• (2) A distinctive batch number or lot number or code number
• (3) Manufacturing date and the expiry date or the date of minimum durability of the food
 Labelling requirements
• Where the validity of the date marking of food to which this regulation applies is
dependent upon its storage, direction to that effect shall also be indicated on its label
• Every container for infant formula shall:
• (a) shall not contain anything that may discourage breast-feeding;
• (b) shall contain a conspicuous notice in bold characters in the prescribed height
stating the following:
“MOTHER’S MILK IS BEST FOR YOUR BABY AND HELPS IN PREVENTING
DIARRHOEA AND OTHER ILLNESSES”;
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• Defacing of Labels
No person shall remove, add to, alter deface or render illegible any statement
upon a label printed on or attached to a wrapper or container in pursuance of
these Regulations.
 Labelling requirements
• Every container of refined vegetable oil shall bear the following label: (a) “………Refined (here
insert the name of the oil) Oil”:
• In the case of condensed milk/condensed skimmed milk (unsweetened) sterilized by ultra-high
temperature (UHT) treatment:
This has been sterilized by UHT process
Every package containing milk for making tea /tea whitener liquid shall bear the following label:
*---------Milk for making tea/tea whitener liquid
*--- Ye Doodh Nahi Hai (Statement in Urdu language)
**Contains added sugar
 Labelling requirements
• *……………. Frozen Dessert Contains **…………..Edible Vegetable Oil
• *……………. Margarine **Contains …………..edible Vegetable Oil
*……………. Ye Makhan Nahi Hai (In Urdu)
• Coffee blended with chicory
• This mixture contains: Coffee ----- per cent. Chicory------ per cent.
• “Tobacco is injurious to health”
A Pictorial Depiction of Health Hazards Associated
• CRUSH THE BOTTLE AFTER USE
• MONOSODIUM GULTAMATE: NOT RECOMMENDED FOR INFANT BELOW 12 MONTHS
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• Contains Caffeine ____ ppm (should only be mentioned in ppm)
• In the case of the Infant formula (from birth to six (06) months) in Urdu language (Nastleeq
font):
Yay Paidaaish say chhay maa kay bachooun k liye ghazaai formula hai. Yay qudartii doodh
nahi hai..
Yay aik say teen saal k bachooun kay liye ghazaai formula hai. Yay qudartii doodh nahi hai.
Aspartame (methyl ester) marketed as table top sweetener :
Not for “phenylketoneurics”
 Bulk packaging
Labelling of Bulk Packaging
All the bulk packaging (e.g. sacks or similar packaging) shall also be labelled with following information.
• Name of manufacturer/supplier.
• Name of the food (Description of true nature of the food)
• Address of manufacturer/supplier.
• Date of production
• Expiry date
• Net weight
• List of ingredients
 Imported Food Commodities
Labeling of Imported Food commodities
In the case of food commodities which are imported from other countries, in
addition to the labelling requirements mentioned in the part iii 8.5 (35)
following labelling requirement are mandatory:
• Labelling Language (Urdu mandatory; English optional)
• Importer’s Name and Address
• Country of origin