FSSAI fixes uniform blue-and-white logo for milk and dairy product packs from July 2028

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has fixed a uniform logo for milk and milk products.

Milk, curd and cheese are used in kitchens almost every day. FSSAI has issued new rules for these products, after which customers will see a new mark on the packs when they buy them.

The authority has also announced the date from which the mark must appear on all packaging.

The new FSSAI logo will be a blue square with a white drop inside it. All companies will be required to use the mark in the same manner on the packs of all their dairy products.

For customers, the mark will make it easier to identify dairy products while shopping. It will also make it simpler to tell milk from other dairy products.

Many packaged food items already carry red and green marks, which show whether a product is non-vegetarian. A red mark means the product contains items such as fish and eggs.

A green mark helps customers identify a product as 100 per cent vegetarian. In the same way, the new blue-square mark will make milk and dairy products easier to identify.

The new FSSAI rules will come into force on 1 July 2028. Companies will have to show the new blue-and-white logo on the packaging of milk and dairy products by that date.

Companies whose milk, curd or cheese packs are sold in the market will therefore have to make this change to their packaging before 1 July 2028.