The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has formally issued the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Second Amendment Rules, 2025, vide Gazette Notification G.S.R. 881(E) dated December 2, 2025. Exercising powers under clauses (j) and (q) of sub‑section (2) of Section 52 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, the Central Government has amended the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, to carve out a specific exemption for pan masala from the

The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Amendment Rules, 2025 quietly unplugged every medical-device package from the empire of tape-measures, type-heights and width-to-height ratios that have governed ordinary consumer packs for the past fourteen years. The one-page notification brings to an end a regulatory tug-of-war that manufacturers, importers and even field inspectors had faced ever since the Medical Devices Rules, 2017 came into force under the Drugs and Cosmetics