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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Almost 30% of food industry unaware of safety standards: Ficci

Almost 30% of food industry unaware of safety standards: Ficci

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published Published on Jun 15, 2010   modified Modified on Jun 15, 2010


India, food safety and standards are neglected topic despite being directly related to public health. According to a survey conducted by Ficci, almost 30% of the respondents, bulk of whom were from the food processing industry, were unaware that Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) is mandatory to implement. The respondents were not even aware about the existence of such an Act.

“This means that more capacity building and in-depth training programmes to enable smoother transition from the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (PFA) to FSSA should be conducted to make stakeholders aware of its provisions,” the survey stated.

The survey conducted among 700 respondents across varied sectors and locations, including small and medium enterprises and multinational companies, showed that 75% of the respondents feel that there should be harmonisation of Indian food regulations with internationally accepted standards to meet consumer aspiration of safe and healthy food at par with global standards and regulating and facilitating food trade by ensuring level playing field for all stakeholders inclusive of the entire food supply chain.

Around 17% of the respondents suggested selective harmonisation with internationally accepted standards. Respondents in this category were of the view that harmonisation at horizontal level including labelling, food additives, and food category system are enabling and straightforward.

About 8 % of the respondents were not sure or did not believe in harmonisation.

The survey gathered and collated an extensive and complex set of responses about the FSSA- awareness, challenges and expectations observed by the Food Processing Industries in India.

In the question of whether the FSSA serve the purpose of a unified food law, majority of the respondents (86 %) believed that FSSA has served the purpose of a unified food law while 10 % of the respondents feel that the FSSA do not serve the purpose of a unified food law because duplicate mandatory licences under BIS, AGMARK, Packaged Commodity Rules, GEAC etc still need to be taken.

“Considering that FSSA was considered a one-stop shop for all regulations on food, it was desired to integrate appropriate portions of the others into FSSA,” FICCI said. Among the respondents, 73 % feel that there should be an office for handling industry queries which should be a single reference point for uniform and consistent compliance with the standards. The survey revealed that top three issues faced by the industries are lack of testing facilities, less industry representation and lack of transparency.


The Financial Express, 14 June, 2010, http://www.financialexpress.com/news/almost-30-of-food-industry-unaware-of-safety-standards-ficci/633272/0#


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