The Directorate sought technical collaboration from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Animal Health and Food Safety through the PROGRESS veterinary training program.
The draft is open to objections and suggestions within the prescribed 60-day consultation period and should not be treated as final law.
The issue follows testing of a sample collected from the premises of a hotel chain in Connaught Place, New Delhi.
The proposed regulation is aimed at ensuring that consumers are not misled about the ingredients, composition and nature of food products sold as paneer.
The authority also directed both establishments to stop their operations immediately.