Thursday, January 22, 2015
In a bid create awareness about the rules and regulations of the Food Safety and Standard Act (FSSA) among local hoteliers and eatery owners, the Thane district unit of the Food and Drugs authority (FDA) orgainsed a seminar in Mira Road on Wednesday.
Around 100 members of the Mira Bhayandar Hotel Association attended the seminar in the presence of assistant FDA commissioner Rajendra Runwal and standing committee chairman Prashant Keluskar. Replacing the age old Prevention of Food Adulteration (PFA) Act, 1954, which was confined only to check food adulteration, the state government brought into force the FSSA with the objective of consolidating the laws relating to food and to curb adulteration by prescribing higher penalties for violation of food laws.
The act is a culmination of nine separate acts that come together to cover every aspect of food safety involving everyone in the industry right from the manufacturers and suppliers to the hoteliers. Making special mention of the food inspection provision concerning hotels and restaurants, Runwal urged the industry stakeholders to keep track of the supply chain to avoid adulteration of ingredients used in the making of food. The objective of the new act is to consolidate the laws relating to food and to curb food adulteration by prescribing higher penalties for violation of food laws. It will also establish the Food Safety Management System to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption.
Under the FSSA the FDA can serve outlets with an improvement notice which needs evidence-based compliance to avoid penal action.
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