"If enforced strictly, the regulations will ensure safer food products for consumers by setting stricter residue and contaminant limits across a variety of food items and help in dealing with antimicrobial resistance," said George Cheriyan, working president of Consumers Protection Association (CPA). The FSSAI has also prohibited the use of antibiotics during honey production and reset the limit of the chemicals ochratoxin A and deoxynivalenol in wheat, wheat bran, barley, rye and coffee.