The FSSAI draft amendment of 2026 modifies which parent regulations on foods for infant nutrition?
- A.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2011
- B.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2016
- C.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2020
- D.Foods for Infant Nutrition Regulations, 2024
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Explanation
The correct answer is the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2020. These are the parent rules that the new draft, styled the Amendment Regulations of 2026, sets out to edit. The parent instrument lays down the make-up, the quality and the safety standards for every class of infant nutrition product sold for children between birth and the age of twenty-four months, and it treats lactose and glucose polymers as the carbohydrates a product should rely on, with sucrose or fructose allowed only where a carbohydrate source is needed and only inside prescribed limits. The other three options carry years that do not belong to the parent regulations, and a candidate should be careful not to confuse the year of the parent rules with the year of the amending draft, which is 2026. The amendment itself adds one provision: no added sucrose and no added fructose in products for an infant below six months of age.
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Practice Questions
Which two sugars does the FSSAI draft amendment propose to keep out of products meant for infants up to six months of age?
- A.Lactose and maltose
- B.Sucrose and fructose
- C.Glucose polymers and lactose
- D.Sorbitol and mannitol
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The draft Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Amendment Regulations, 2026, which reached the Gazette of India on 16 October 2026, proposes that these two sugars not be added to any product intended for an infant up to the age of six months.
Read the full explanation →Within how many days of the Official Gazette copies reaching the public may stakeholders file objections to the FSSAI draft on infant nutrition?
- A.30 days
- B.45 days
- C.60 days
- D.90 days
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The notification on sucrose and fructose in infant foods has been published as a draft for public consultation, and objections as well as suggestions from stakeholders are invited within sixty days of the date on which copies of the Official Gazette carrying it are made available to the public.
Read the full explanation →Kaumarabhritya, the subject of KAUMARACON 2026, is the branch of Ayurveda that deals with which field?
- A.Surgery
- B.Child health
- C.Toxicology
- D.Geriatric care
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Kaumarabhritya is Ayurvedic paediatrics, and the conference named after it was devoted to advancing child healthcare through Ayurveda. The sessions covered Ayurvedic paediatric education, regulatory frameworks, traditional practices and scope for collaboration between countries, and a round-table examined policy, education and research in the discipline.
Read the full explanation →An Academic Chair in Ayurveda is to be set up under an international MoU signed by AIIA Goa with which university?
- A.Maharishi International University, United States
- B.University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
- C.University of Melbourne, Australia
- D.Heidelberg University, Germany
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The international agreement was signed between AIIA Goa and that university, which is located at Fairfield in the state of Iowa, and it provides for an Academic Chair in Ayurveda in the university’s Department of Physiology and Health.
Read the full explanation →On its 10th Foundation Day, the All India Institute of Ayurveda signed Memorandums of Understanding with which two organisations?
- A.Rashtriya Ayurved Vidyapeeth and Arogya Bharati
- B.The National Medical Commission and Arogya Bharati
- C.Rashtriya Ayurved Vidyapeeth and the Indian Council of Medical Research
- D.The Ministry of Ayush and the National Medical Commission
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Both agreements were signed at the Foundation Day ceremony to strengthen cooperation between institutions and the sharing of knowledge in Ayurveda.
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