Major Functions of FSSAI

and guidelines in relation to articles of food and specifying an appropriate system of enforcing various standards thus notified accreditation of certification bodies engaged in certification of food safety management system for food businesses accreditation of laboratories and notification of the accredited laboratories to central government and state governments in the matters of framing policy and rules in areas that have a direct or indirect bearing on food safety and nutrition consumption, incidence and prevalence of biological risk, contaminants in food, residues of various contaminants in food products, identification of emerging risks and introduction of rapid alert system so that the public, consumers, panchayats, etc., receive rapid, reliable and objective information about food safety and issues of concern are involved or intend to get involved in food businesses technical standards for food, sanitary and phytosanitary standards

food standards

FSSAI for Consumers

For the benefit of consumers, FSSAI issues advisories and notifications on its website (www.fssai. gov.in). Some relevant ones are mentioned here:

11-2014)

(dated 19-06-2014)

food products (dated 31-10-2013)