FSSAI row trips Health Min

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed to upgrade 72 existing state food labs to Level-1 and set up one new lab in each of 20 districts at Level-2 under the 12th Five Year Plan. This was informed by Dr Manisha Narayan, ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under the Food Safety and Standards Act of India (FSSAI), has prohibited use of colouring agents in food in restaurants. The Act only exempts items such as ice-creams, flavoured milk etc., in which colours can be used ...

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country's apex food regulator, has formulated a strategy comprising four annexures to take up the task of harmonising India's food standards with those laid down by the Codex ...

FSSAI'S Norms for Cleanliness at Food Outlets

New Guidelines Issued by FSSAI

Addressing the meeting of AHARs members its President Arvind Shetty said that the Central Government had enacted a new FSSAI Act, which was briefed to be very simple with main intention of collecting data about food vendors throughout the country.

The court had also asked the FSSAI to consult the All India Food Processors' Association (AIFPA) and restaurant associations for framing the guidelines.

Akshay Kalbag, Mumbai The current system of having eight sub-panels such as for functional foods and nutraceuticals, working on drafting of regulations under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA), 2006, is likely to be revamped, either in the ...

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recently yielded to the Madurai-based Tamil Nadu Foodgrains Merchants' Association's (TFMA) demand to revise the standards laid down under the Prevention of Food Adulteration (PFA) Act, 1954 ...