India, Sept. 25 -- The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Tuesday proposed amendments to regulations aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of analogue products being marketed as paneer, in a bid to prevent consumers from being misled.

The term "analogue paneer" has been gaining attention lately with the crackdown by food regulatory bodies, sparking questions as to why non-dairy paneer is called analogue paneer and not fake paneer.

As per FSSAI, an analogue product is that "in which constituents not derived from milk take the place, in part or in whole, of any milk constituent(s) and the final product resembles, organoleptically and/or functionally, milk or milk product or composite milk product."

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