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1. Short title and commencement.—(1) These regulations may be called the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Second Amendment Regulations, 2021. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette and Food Business Operator shall ensure compliance to all the provisions of these regulations for all the products manufactured on or after 1st January, 2022. 2. In the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011,- (1) in regulation 1.2, after clause 1, the following clause shall be inserted, namely- “2. “Industrial trans fatty acids” means all the geometrical isomers of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids having non-conjugated, interrupted by at least one methylene group, carboncarbon double bonds in the trans configuration. It excludes trans-fatty acids from dairy, meat, fish and their products.”; (2) in regulation 2.3, in sub-regulation 2.3.14, after clause (20), the following clause shall be inserted, namely- “(21) Food Products in which edible oils and fats are used as an ingredient shall not contain industrial trans fatty acids more than 2% by mass of the total oils/fats present in the product, on and from 01st January, 2022.”.