The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) today said it is in the process of setting up a food safety standards review panel to identify gaps in the existing standards for safe and nutritious food against international standards.
FSSAI CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said in Mumbai that it has formulated a three-pronged strategy for ensuring safe and nutritious food for the 1.3 billion people in India. He said that FSSAI will also look at ensuring that these food safety standards are complied by stakeholders in the food business through third party auditing and food inspections.
Inspections will become a norm as far as food safety is concerned, Agarwal said while speaking at a seminar ‘Surakshit Khadya Abhiyan’, a national mission on safe and nutritious food initiated by Confederation of Indian Industry and Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence.
FSSAI will also strengthen capacity building and training of food safety labs and master trainers in food safety standards, who can be trainers for the stakeholders in the food value chain.