Facilitating Ease of Doing Business in India’s Food Sector Streamlining Food Safety Compliance Ecosystem in India
Ali Mehdi‚ Priyanka Tomar‚ Divya Chaudhry‚ Pallavi Joshi

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Noting interlinkages of food safety with food security, public health, trade, economy, employment and poverty alleviation, the United Nations General Assembly designated June 7th as World Food Safety Day in 2018. On the eve of the first World Food Safety Day, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, stated that since ‘food safety is of prime importance for the well-being and health of our nation as well as its people, particularly women and children’, the Government of India ‘is focused on implementing the latest and best standards of food safety in the country’.
For streamlining India’s food safety compliance ecosystem, this report argues that it should be –

1. based on best available science;

2. rational, risk-based, robust, resilient and predictable (vis-à-vis design);

3. consistent and transparent (vis-à-vis enforcement);

4. easily accessible and understandable for all stake-holders;

5. use most innovative and least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory objectives.

 

Contents in Detail

List of Tables
Foreword by Mr Pawan Kumar Agarwal, CEO, FSSAI
About the Report
Summary of Challenges Faced by Food Business Operators (FBOs) in India
Summary of Our Recommendations
Acknowledgments
 
1. Introduction
1.1 The Food Industry in India and the UK
2. Food Safety Regulatory Ecosystem in India
2.1 Enforcement of Food Safety Act, Rules and Regulations
2.2 Licensing and Registration
2.3 Packaging and Labelling
2.4 Ensuring Food Safety by Training and Inspections
2.5 Towards Risk-based Inspections
2.6 Self-compliance
 
3. Food Safety Regulatory Ecosystem in the UK
3.1 FSA and Food Legislations in the UK
3.2 Registration Process
3.3 Novel Foods Legislation
3.4 Labelling and Packaging Compliance Requirements
3.5 Division of Responsibility
3.6 Food Safety Inspections and Enforcement
3.7 Coordination between the FSA and Local Authorities (LAs)
3.8 Primary Authority (PA)
3.9 Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS)
 
4. Challenges for Food Business Operators (FBOs) in India
4.1 Impediments to Transparency
4.2 Impediments to Predictability
4.3 Impediments to Consistency
4.4 Other Impediments
 
5. Learnings from the UK
5.1 Risk-based Food Surveillance System
5.2 Impact Assessments (IAs)
5.3 ‘Regulating Our Future’ – FSA’s Future Plans
5.4 Government-wide Regulatory Reforms in the UK
 
6. Further Recommendations
6.1 Recommendations for Systemic Reforms
6.2 Recommendations for Streamlining the Operations of the FSSAI
 
7. Appendices
Appendix A – Primary Authority (PA)
Appendix B – Proposed Regulatory Philosophy Statement for the FSSAI
 
Bibliography
Publisher AF Press
Publication Date 2019
Number of Pages 52
ISBN 9789332705142
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Academic Foundation (AF), based in New Delhi, is India’s leading independent publisher of academic/scholarly books in Social Sciences, specialising in Economics—Development Economics and Indian Economy in particular, and allied subjects.

About the Book

Noting interlinkages of food safety with food security, public health, trade, economy, employment and poverty alleviation, the United Nations General Assembly designated June 7th as World Food Safety Day in 2018. On the eve of the first World Food Safety Day, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, stated that since ‘food safety is of prime importance for the well-being and health of our nation as well as its people, particularly women and children’, the Government of India ‘is focused on implementing the latest and best standards of food safety in the country’.
For streamlining India’s food safety compliance ecosystem, this report argues that it should be –

1. based on best available science;

2. rational, risk-based, robust, resilient and predictable (vis-à-vis design);

3. consistent and transparent (vis-à-vis enforcement);

4. easily accessible and understandable for all stake-holders;

5. use most innovative and least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory objectives.

 

Contents in Detail

List of Tables
Foreword by Mr Pawan Kumar Agarwal, CEO, FSSAI
About the Report
Summary of Challenges Faced by Food Business Operators (FBOs) in India
Summary of Our Recommendations
Acknowledgments
 
1. Introduction
1.1 The Food Industry in India and the UK
2. Food Safety Regulatory Ecosystem in India
2.1 Enforcement of Food Safety Act, Rules and Regulations
2.2 Licensing and Registration
2.3 Packaging and Labelling
2.4 Ensuring Food Safety by Training and Inspections
2.5 Towards Risk-based Inspections
2.6 Self-compliance
 
3. Food Safety Regulatory Ecosystem in the UK
3.1 FSA and Food Legislations in the UK
3.2 Registration Process
3.3 Novel Foods Legislation
3.4 Labelling and Packaging Compliance Requirements
3.5 Division of Responsibility
3.6 Food Safety Inspections and Enforcement
3.7 Coordination between the FSA and Local Authorities (LAs)
3.8 Primary Authority (PA)
3.9 Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS)
 
4. Challenges for Food Business Operators (FBOs) in India
4.1 Impediments to Transparency
4.2 Impediments to Predictability
4.3 Impediments to Consistency
4.4 Other Impediments
 
5. Learnings from the UK
5.1 Risk-based Food Surveillance System
5.2 Impact Assessments (IAs)
5.3 ‘Regulating Our Future’ – FSA’s Future Plans
5.4 Government-wide Regulatory Reforms in the UK
 
6. Further Recommendations
6.1 Recommendations for Systemic Reforms
6.2 Recommendations for Streamlining the Operations of the FSSAI
 
7. Appendices
Appendix A – Primary Authority (PA)
Appendix B – Proposed Regulatory Philosophy Statement for the FSSAI
 
Bibliography
Publisher AF Press
Publication Date 2019
Number of Pages 52
ISBN 9789332705142
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