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Mechanism of developing

and fixing food standards


Why Food Standards????
Introduction
Food industry in India is undergoing a radical change
New technology / Process advancement  Product
development
Ensure safety and Quality is important
Food standards  Essential
System overview

Policy Making / Implement


Emergency
Developme Developing ing &
Response
nt Standards enforcing
Policy Development

Provides highly visible opportunities to demonstrate both


medium- and long-term commitment, values, aspirations and
decisions
Food safety policy represents an important effort to strengthen
the means for improving food control systems
Cooperatively made by a forum of ministers, government
jurisdiction
Forum Members  Domain Experts, Legal Advisor, Industrial
Experts , IAS (Chair man), Ministers of State and Central
government
Forum Members are decision maker
Forum Supported by Food Regulation Standing Committee
(FRSC)
FRSC government department and agencies heads
responsible for food regulation in each jurisdiction
Policy Process

Analyse Circulate Obtain


Draft the
and formal Dissemin
the food national
finalize the endorseme ate the
safety food safety
policy nt and policy
situation policy document approval
Policy Process

Analyse the food safety situation


food safety situation analysis report,
summarize the main findings of the status of food safety and
challenges
focusing on those issues requiring policy
Direction

Draft the national food safety policy


 multidisciplinary team earlier constituted during the
situation analysis phase can be convened to draft the
national food safety policy
Policy Process
Circulate and finalize the policy document
 Additional consultations are required
 Ministry of Health and other relevant government ministries and

departments, institutions, academia, consumers etc


 Objectivity and transparency should prevail during the review process

Obtain formal endorsement and approval


legal or administrative processes including a referendum and
endorsement by parliament or cabinet in order to obtain
legitimacy for the policy

Disseminate the policy


Once formally approved, the food safety policy should be
disseminated as widely as possible
Possible dissemination mechanisms and channels may include
press materials, media and meetings with specific
implementation partners.
Making Standards

independent scientific body  FSSAI, BIS,


AGMARK, etc
develops and sets food standards which become
part of food law in the States and Territories
Standards for
 Additives,
 Pesticides,
 Product quality, etc

National laboratory was established and used for making Standards


https://www.fssai.gov.in/cms/food-safety-and-standards-regulatio
ns.php
Central food Laboratory
Kolkatta
 DFRL
Defence Food Research Laboratory
Karnataka
FSSAI – Regional Laboratories

https://fssai.gov.in/food-laboratories.php?txtlabtype=2
Implementing & enforcing

Implement to real time process


enforce food laws
monitor the laws
Emergency Response
Ready to respond when misbehave happen
managing food recalls and incidents.
PROCESS FOR MAKING OF FOOD STANDARDS

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