New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Surveillance drives, inspections and random sampling of food products, done by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), include 5,18,559 sample analysis which led to 88,192 penalties and 3,614 convictions, the government said on Tuesday.The measures taken by FSSAI led to 1,161 licence cancellations over 2022–23 to 2024–25 after random sampling of various food products including milk, ghee, spices, honey, paneer and other foods, Minister of State fo…
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New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The government has stepped up food safety enforcement across the country, with more than 56,000 risk-based inspections conducted in the last three years — more than 100 per cent growth in the last three years — to ensure compliance with food safety standards, the Parliament was informed on Friday.In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Prataprao Jadhav, said the Food Safety and Standards Authority of I…