Strengthening food safety
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- ✓The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India faces scrutiny over its pesticide regulatory framework.
- ✓Experts said a disconnect exists between regulatory intent and ground reality.
- ✓FSSAI lacks direct access to farm-level data, forcing reliance on secondary benchmarks.
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- BUSINESS
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- Business Line
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- 4 Minute(s)
- Market Focus
- India Economy
A more scientific and practical pesticide regulatory framework is needed
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is increasingly under scrutiny for what industry experts describe as a disconnect between regulatory intent and ground reality. FSSAI is mandated to establish science-based standards and regulate and monitor the food chain to ensure safe food for consumers. Consumer groups and environmental advocates demand stringent safety norms, while exporters and domestic producers seek feasible and globally competitive standards. At the same time, the regulator needs to function with limited available domestic research data on pesticide residues. The Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) framework largely depends on pesticide registration, CIB&RC (Central Insecticides Board & Registration Committee) decisions, residue data generation and international practices.
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