date:May 21, 2012
As per Section 22 (4) of the FSSA, proprietary or novel food means an article of food for which standards have not been specified but is not unsafe. As per Regulation 2.12.1 of the Act, proprietary food means a food that has not been standardised under these regulations.
According to the official, the definition of proprietary foods, given in the Act, is a misnomer. If existing traditional or ethnic foods are called proprietary or non standard foods, their manufacturers, who are mostly petty FB