Food

Food Safety and Security Bill (FSSB) - Defined Food and Pre-market Approval. Language(s): English. Number of pages: 12

SFA will be introducing a Food Safety and Security Bill (FSSB) which will consolidate Singapore's food-related legislation across the existing Acts into one Act, include enhancements to Singapore's food safety regime, and support its food supply resilience. As Singapore develops the FSSB, we will notify the relevant regulations to the WTO progressively when drafts are ready.

This notification concerns "Defined Food and Pre-market Approval". For food safety, the draft provisions are intended to clarify the responsibility of novel food and GM food companies to submit applications to SFA for pre-market approval prior to the sale of novel foods and GM foods in Singapore.

A "defined food" is food that:

1.    is, consists of or has as an ingredient a novel food in respect of which no pre-market approval is granted;

2.    is, consists of or has as an ingredient a genetically modified food in respect of which no pre-market approval is granted; or

3.   is, consists of or has as an ingredient, in any form (whether whole or in parts and whether fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, smoked, salted or in brine, or as flour) an insect-like species which is not a catalogued insect-like species. The insect regulatory framework and list of catalogued insect-like species were already notified via G/SPS/N/SGP/79.