FSSAI stands for "Food Safety and Standards Authority of India"

FSSAI represents the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. The association has a place with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Its job is to set down logical guidelines for food articles to screen, assess and direct the assembling, stockpiling, dissemination, deals, and import of food articles to guarantee the accessibility of protected and sound nourishment for human utilization.

FSSAI is set up under the Food and Safety Act, 2006. It is settled in New Delhi, India. It has eight local workplaces in Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Mumbai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Cochin, and Chennai. The office additionally has 4 references and 72 nearby food testing research centers to test the contaminated nourishments. Starting in 2017, Sh Ashish Bahuguna is the Chairperson and Sh Pawan Kumar Agarwal is the Chief Executive Officer of the FSSAI.

The association has the position to lead substance tests on the food results of various organizations. It additionally makes a move against the organizations that are not keeping up the necessary sustenance and quality in their food items. For instance, restrictions on Maggi noodles by FSSAI.

FSSAI is approved to give licenses to Food Business Operators who hold fast to its strategies and rules. This permit is currently obligatory for every individual who is into a food business, for example, a food maker, food dealer, and eatery proprietor.

Key elements of FSSAI

• Outlining of guidelines to set down norms for sanitation
• Giving rules for accreditation of food testing labs
• To offer specialized help and logical exhortation to the Central Government
• Leading overview to gather information concerning food utilization and food pollution
• Spread data to advance mindfulness about sanitation
• Direct preparing projects to prepare individuals who are in food organizations or need to begin a food business.
• Aid the improvement of global specialized norms for food, sterile and so on
• Set up a data network in the nation to give dependable data to general society and customers identified with sanitation.