Food Toxicology 2(2+0)

Lesson 30 : Food Safety

Food safety situation in India

National food control systems has the following inadequacies:

1. They are not based on modern scientific and management concepts like compliance policies, risk assessment, HACCP, transparency, and involvement of industry, trade and consumers.
2. Insufficient involvement of scientific expertise from the academia, industry and consumers to strengthen the scientific basis for food control decision making processes.
3. Lack of suitable facilities such as laboratories.
4. Lack of resources such trained inspectorate and laboratory staff, funding.
5. Inability to keep up with the developments in food science and technology, changing consumer demands, and newer requirements of trade and industry.
6. Lack of coordination among different governmental activities concerning agriculture, food, trade, industry and health to achieve optimal results.