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Indian food is renowned for its taste and variety. To ensure that this food is made available for human consumption, the food authority of India has been established, which regulates and governs the food businesses across India. The food authority of India has numerous duties as well as functions that it should perform in order to serve the people better. In this article, we shall look at these duties and functions of food authority of India as laid down in Food Safety and Standards Act.
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The Food authority in India is FSSAI. FSSAI stands for Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. It is an autonomous statutory body that primarily maintains food safety and standards in India. It comes under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The body is functioning as per the Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006. FSSAI is also responsible for issuing food licenses such as FSSAI Registration/State License/Central License.
The Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006 is an act that consolidates the laws pertaining to the food, and it provides for the establishment of FSSAI for laying down science based standards for food articles to regulate its manufacture, distribution, storage, sale, and import, to make sure that safe as well as wholesome food is available for human consumption.
Section 16 of the FSS Act 2006[1] lays down the duties and functions of Food Authority of India. The main duty of food authority is to regulate and monitor the manufacture, processing, sale, and import of food. Let’s discuss them more extensively.
The food authority may by regulations specify:
Functions of Food Authority of India-
The food authority shall:
It may be noted that another crucial duty and functions of food authority of India is to make it public the opinions of the scientific committee and the scientific panel straight after adoption, the annual declarations of interests made by the Food authority members and declare interests, if any, made in relation to items on the meetings agendas. It shall also disclose the results of its scientific studies and the annual report of its activities.
Among the functions of food authority of India, it is required to give directions to the Food Safety Commissioner on matters relating to food safety and standards. He shall be bound by such directions while exercising his powers under the Act. The food authority cannot disclose or cause to be disclosed confidential information to third parties. Such information could have been received by it on the promise of confidential treatment. However, if circumstances so require, information can be made public.
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