LANDSCAPE OF FOOD SAFETY IN INDIA: NAVIGATING THE LEGAL CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
LANDSCAPE OF FOOD SAFETY IN INDIA: NAVIGATING THE LEGAL CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES Biraj Kumar Sarkar, Surendranath Law College,University of Calcutta Download Manuscript Food safety is our fundamental right which has the utmost importance to our health. Throughout the world, many countries enact tough rules and regulations to protect their citizens from consuming unsafe foods. Countries like India, feed a large geographically dispersed population among which one-tenth of the population is under the poverty index. India ranks 111 out of 125 countries (2023) in the global hunger index and over 20% of the kids under the age of 5 are underweight and struggling with malnutrition[1]. In this ridiculous situation, food safety is a vital matter of discussion which we often neglect. For a long time, we have been facing many food safety irregularities in our country. From government-aided organizations to private organizations to street vendors we can see numerous instances of unhygienic, unsafe food practices. In 2024 a chain of gruesome instances comes to light which shows us the landscape of food safety in India. The enactment of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954 underlines the need for food safety rules in India. In 2006 the government revised and consolidated food safety legislation and enacted the Food Safety and Standards Act 2006 which came into effect in 2011[2]. This act tries to implement rules and regulations for all issues regarding food safety in India. This research endeavour strives to comprehensively study the legal provisions of the Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006 along with the recent and past instances regarding food safety matters. Type Information Research Paper LawFoyer International Journal of Doctrinal Legal Research, Volume II, Issue II, Page 964-979. Creative Commons Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Copyright © LIJDLR 2024
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