Preventing food from Adulteration, degradation,unfit for health fullness.
Food is one of the essentials for
proper maintenance of human health. Access to pure, nutritious food, free from
any type of adulteration is the right of every citizen. The Directorate of
Prevention of Food Adulteration is responsible for checking adulteration/
misbranding of food articles.
Although Sec.
222 & 273 of Indian Penal Code were in existence, the game were
considered not sufficient for control of adulteration of food articles. The
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act was enacted in 1954 to strengthen the
system for preventing food adulteration. The Act came into effect from lst
June, 1955. The Act was subsequently amended several times.
Public Analysts
The Central Government or the State Government
may, by notificatiOn in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons having the
prescribed qualifications to be public analysts for such local area as may be
assigned to them by the Central Government or the State Government as the case
may be. Different public analysts may be appointed for different articles of
food.
Food Inspectors
The Central Government or the State Government
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons having the
Prescribed qualifications to be Food Inspectors for such local areas as may be
assigned to them.
Some of the powers of food inspectors are:
1. A food Inspector shall have power –
(a) To take samples of
any article of food from-
• Any person selling such article
• Any person who is in the course of conveying
delivering or preparing an deliver such article to a purchaser or consignee:
• A consignee after delivery of any such
article to him
And,
(b) To
send such sample for analysis to the Public Analyst for the local area within
which such sample has been taken;
(c)
With the previous approval of the Local (Health) Authority having jurisdiction
over the local area concerned, or with the previous approval of the Food
(Health) Authority, to prohibit the sale of any article of food in the interest
of public health.
2. Any Food Inspector may enter and inspect any
place where any article of food is manufactured, or stored for sale, or stored for
the manufacture of any other article of food for sale, or exposed or exhibited
for sale or where any adulterant is manufactured or kept, and take samples of
such article of food or adulterant for analysis.
Central Food Laboratories
Four Central Food Laboratories have
been established under Act, which work as appellate laboratories for the
purpose of analysis of appeal samples of food articles lifted by the Food
Inspectors of States/ UTs and Local Bodies.
The Laboratories
1. Food
Research and Standardization Laboratory, Ghaziabad
2. Central
Food laboratory, Calcutta
3. Central
Food laboratory, Pune
4. Central
Food laboratory, Mysore
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