Indian Legal Framework For Food Safety And Standards
- IJLLR Journal
- 16 hours ago
- 2 min read
Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Legal Studies, Motherhood University, Roorkee*
ABSTRACT
Food is the fundamental need of all living creatures. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Admittedly, a man cannot live by food alone but yet he cannot do without that even. Beginning from the hunting, gathering era till date, the story of civilization is man’s pursuit to feed himself and his family. Access to a minimum amount of nutritious and safe food enjoys sanction by all communities and nations All faiths the world over believe that feeding the needy and hungry as the greatest virtue and quite a few charities offer food on daily basis like in Amritsar‟s Golden temple which is called longer and which means free food service, operates round the clock throughout the year without a break and in most of the well- known pilgrimage centers in South India, like Dharmasthala and Tirupati, pilgrims are providedwith free food throughout the year. Lot of sanctity and divinity is attached to the act of feeding the hungry in India. In this research paper researchers have tried to discuss the law and regulation regarding food safety and standards in India that is the development of man and nation is not possible without good health because health is wealth. A hungry population is an economic burden. Food is inevitable for the existence of life on earth. It is only off late that we have begun to use the term safe food owing to the wide prevalence of unsafe food in the market inthe form of adulterated food, misbranded food, food packed without adequate information on the label about their nutritive value and ingredients that have gone into its preparation, manufacturing date expiry/best before date. Hence, when anyjudgment, legislation, or provision of law mentions the term food, it implies safe food and food that meets the dietary and nutritive requirements of a person.
Keywords: Food Safety, Security & Prevention of Standards
