Food safety regulation under FSSAI and the FSS Act, 2006

Six commodity orders and the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 were consolidated into the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, which created the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. FSSAI sets science-based food standards, licenses and registers food businesses, and operates labelling and recall procedures. Enforcement runs through Food Safety Officers and Adjudicating Officers, with appeal to the Food Safety Appellate Tribunal. Offences are graded: substandard and misbranded food are treated separately from unsafe food. Standard-setting power is what makes FSSAI a regulator rather than a licensing office.